The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-05 00:00:00

la Calhisadurse. lie and hi wife maned a few days
after his retain. Mr. ve would have tweed her out
without allowing her latlvlrag, bat witness
went to
pepstaded hlm
to allow her •• guinea a
week. After Mrs. rave
Wudfird witness heard that a lists "OA h
is sus son.
Jan Hargrave went abroad in 1828 or 1429. filto saw lam
at her hove is Callam-strea again In 1832; she saw hits
again 1836 sad son Thomas dbi Besland la de hay
ei that year • oho saw him b August •Os sow him
eshoat the 22nd of 8.1411.18311; N Maisel eO night in
lowkeood Vie tee evening at her bones with Ids
.11filis1 thwa Wade° Colasy, where his son Wars wee,
ell elbesel, sai brought him hams to bar baud as the
Yesßsg Tussdsy,B de WM of April. Tb. sec Viti A.
nmdnei with her until February, 1840; the father seirmall
use) the Thursday or Friday followicg, whim ous bias
wont. He was at her bore all Ma time, .sec{ vibes he !
was elegies. elm sew him spin in May ; he than stayed
shout a wady nod was only almost one day. She went to
111465, Panlinimarast, to sus Mrs. John Hargrave in 1822;
bit arm wt with bor. They saw Mrs. Hume., sad
telftselle .Merced that she was nursing Wholes was to
seed lice. Hargrove Bs. a weak from her husband I she bad
beam ossolving that sem from a Mrs. Emery, feeddedme
lidera Witness saw Mu. Hargrave about We mods
otter. Witness afterwards saw her in Crosby-diesel the
went up main and saw some things belonging to the
Witness asked what she did with suds th6gs, aid Km.
Hargrave said she often parsed the child of de mem=
below. Witness heard a child cry ; Mrs. Hargrave Mind
say anything to her about a child of her own. Witness saw
her again at witness's house in the following November.
She had suanwhile inquired about the ablki, and
told her that she bed another child, and should
not have any mossy. She asked how witness
dared seems her—Moslem she had done wrong once, did
witness suppose the should do so again? Witness showed
her a piece of paper with Mortlemain's same end address ea
it. Wittier thought she would have fainted; she went
down on her knees, and begged wittier not to tell her bar
band. Witness said if she would leave Moulmein, end go
on the other side of thewater„ she would omega& it from bar
husband, and still pay her the money. Witness afterwards
became pinatas for the payment of her rent in the Kings-
land-road. Mn. Hargrave moved from there to Dagger's.
court. Witness visited her there, and saw two cape and
'augers. She said the mooed cup was for the child. Wit.
Lees said a child of so Under an age could not use such a
cop. There was also a pair of gentleman's trousers there,
which she said Mrs. Mortimer had given her to mend. I
Witness uedentoed that Mr. Mortlemain was under the bed 'j
all the time. She refused to pay her any more
money, and told her husband of what she had seen.
He was so frightened at her, that he begged
her to continue the payments until he bad left
Englend. Witness code accused her of being still con-
nected with Mordelasin and she replied, " Howsould you
aspect that a father would keep from his child 1" Witness
seamed the payments in Asgust, 1848. Witness afterwards
paid her rent when she was in trouble. Witness vas pre
seat about three weeks before John Hargrave's death, when
himself and his wile were together. She said the boy (the
plaintiff) would be his hA-. He said. "Do you mean to my
that lam to educate it ?" She said, " Yes, certaioly." She
acknowledged that Mortlemain was the father of the child.
She held up her little finger, and said to her husband, " I
love his little finger better than ever I did yea." It was a
dreadful scene altogether. She was not allowed to answer
many questions on the former trials, and was treated very
rudely.
The witness's evidence on the two former trials was here
read from the learned judge's notes, and it was found that
she bail spas. of the two cups, the gentleman's trousers,
and Mrs. Hargrave falling on her knees, eta. ; but had
not stated the other mitten of which she had now given
evidence.
John Hargrave Rogers believed he was a eon of the late
Mr. John Hargrave by Mary Rogers. Recollected his father
living with his mother, and afterwards with Miss Toone.
Remembered the Carnival ball at B.inlogne in 1836. It was
in the middle of February, and witness's falter was there
with Miss Toone. His father was in plain sloth's, and
without a mask. His father went to England in the April
of that year, but not before in that year. He was absent
about ten days. He went a second time in May, when Mies
Toone accompanied hint. On cross-examination witness said
he enlisted in the army in 1840, but be could not tell in
what month. He did not know the month in which he left
' Calais, nor could he tell the month in which he first went
is school, nor when he entered hie first Berries after he left
schooL He went to India with his regiment, but he could not
swear whether it was in 1845 or not. Defendant had twice
bought his discharge, and his solicitor had allowed him lbs. !
a week for some time past. He had recently been to Bon-
logne to obtain evidence.
Toe evidence of Henry Coffin, given on a former trial, was!
hare read, proof having been given of his being oat of the
country. He stated that be was at Boulogne in the spring
of 1836. He went to the Carnival ball with Mr. Hargrave
and Mon Toone. and saw him afterwards at Boulogne during
the remainder of February and the month of )larch ire
quently. He left for England in April, and was absent
about eight days.
Mary Stead was living in Colitis in 1835, knew John Har-
grave ; he went to live in Boulogne in November, 1835.
'Vlitn.e went there in the January following. Frequently
saw Mr. Hargrave there and Miss Toone, who she supposed
to be his wife. Saw John Hargrave every day for some
months. Remembered the Ca:cleat ball in 1836. Went
with Mr. Hargrave to the ball on the Monday. Miss Toone
was also there in the character of a lady of the time of Geo.
the First. Mr. Hargrave was in plain clothes and not
masked. Mr. Hargrove was at Boulogne for three
or loin days on a week prior to the ball. Did not know of his
'triunes from Boulogne from January to the Aims of the ball;
be could not have bees absent a day without her knowledge.
He went away the beginning or the middle of the April tot.
lowing for about a week. Mr. Hargrave went away a se-
cond time in the beginning of May. Did not know of his I
absence at any other time. On cross-examinatioe, witness
said she knew Mr. Coffin at Wei,. She boarded with him
sod his aunt. Her father maintained her. She did not
sleep in the same room with Coffin. Upon the question
being pressed, witting replied, "Thetis a question you have
no right to ask." Coffin went to prison at Saint Omer. She
went to us him when in prison on a Monday, and stayed
until the Teeedey evening. Witness knew that Mr. Coffin
was in prison under "entente for an infamous crime, as had
been alleged. Coffin also went to the Carnival ball. She
did not apply to Mr. Francis to bail him.
This being the defendant's case, the following witnesses
were examined on Debate( the plaintiff, to rebut pains of this
defendant's evidence.
Charles Score prodaead the conviction of Coffin for a pub-
lic ,urrage on decency—an unnatural offence—and his Ke-
tones to a floe of 300 francs and 11 months' imprisonment.
Henry Dutton Francis had resided at Boulogne for 20
years. Know Coffin well. From what he knew of him he
I would not believe him on his oath. West to the Carnival
ball at Bonier/De oa the Monday before Ask Wednesday.
,1836. Knew John Hargrave well. Did not see hint there.
Should certainly have seen him it he had been there is
plain clothes as stated by defendant's witnesses. Coffin woe I
there, and played the character of an old gentleman to the
admiration of the company—not "the old gentleman "
(laughter)—but an old gentlemen. Miss Steed applied to
him to boil Coffin, but he refused.
Cross examined—Up to his committal, Mr. Coffin con-
ducted himself as a gentleman.
By the Jory—Had no other reason for saying he would
ant believe Coffin oa his oath than his having been con-
' voted of the offense which had been alluded to.
Mrs. Francis, the safe of the last witness, said she was at
the ball on the Monday evening spoken to, at the Spectacle.
Knew John Hargrave well. Did not see him there. Site
mast have done soil he had been in plain clothes, and un-
masked, as had been stated.
Mr. Serjeant Chappell them addressed the jury upon the
evidence in reply, after which,
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins replied upon the whole case in a
most powerful and eloquent addreee, contending that the
evidence for the defines was toconaistent and false, that Mrs.
511121■0111 and many of the defendant's witnesses were inte-
rested, whereas that observation could not be applied to the
witnesses for the plaintiff, who, with his mother, was poor
and unfriended, and there could be no doubt that the plain-
titre eau had been proved by the witnesses of truth. The
learned serjeant's reply occupied nearly foot boon.
His lordship recapitulated the evidence with great per-
spicuity and clearly explained the law to the jury, after which
they retired for half an hour and returned into wart with a
verdict for the plaintiff.
The court rose at half-pest sin o'clock.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—YzatiaDAY.
Dm= Mu. Cominsuoxsa Hamm.
IN u JAILDINS.—Tas DARTIVILD SAVINGS Box=.

This was the certificate meeting in the ease of Jo-
seph Jardine, draper, of Dartford, and actuary of the
Dartford Savings Beak. Ihe facts of the case an
well known from the number of times it has been
before the public. The bankrupt had appropriated upwards
of 2,0001. of the gneiss of the lank, sad owed to other
erections 1,1941. His assets were estimated to prodigal
1,664 S The trustees of the bank at first slanted to have
the asset. handed over to them, in setisfactien of the bank-
rupt., defalcation, but this claim being refused by the court,
the depositors had been 'drained to prove on the estate. At
present not more than 2001. hes been proved foe in this way,
bat there are other parties to come io.
Mr. Jones can upon the court to refuse the certificate
altogether.
Mr. Ltoklater biped the bankrupt would be thought
retitled to • woad slam certificate. The bankrupt was to
be dealt with under the bankrupt laws, and his enthessle-
meat ought not to be sceeniered at all. The only charge
against him was kis having sentinued in badness too long.
Under the 198th section the wart amid only consider the
bankrupt's cannot as • trader ; the form of *militate
showed this. In the an of " pare Gibbs," decided by
his Honour, cartels frauds ware alleged and proved ; but
the nun held that it wee ally as a scrivener that the arms of
the bankrupt amid he oonsldered by the wart. It "Bn
parte Spicer," decided by VisiaClutheellor Knight Braes in
1849, the bankrupt had bees guilty of • breech of trust, sad
it was held that the woods "as a trader" in the statute
limited the grounds of opposing a catificate to acts
done by the bankrupt in the num of hie trade.
In another OM before Hr. Hajenat Stephens, that
of a be_ slittsansed Fisher, mbe bad been guilty of
his Hawn said wee settled law that
agnmeaertiTZl7'" ellSa only be opposed en the ground of ems
done lag ***abrupt es • trader. • few days since, the
Via Chaseeler had deeded a Mlle on appeal from the
Nottingham mart, whin Mr. Climenbsieser Botany had
refused • camas** M • beehive rimmed Wakefield, on the
=Lief imam et hoot. Is mu alleged that these
of but bed est hem einatltted by the beakrapt
ea a trader; sad Ide Heesar held that this be so, and eke
words " etoadoet u • tease" being fa the set et peellateent.
tie eat/baatstt mustepplyiti beamed. Vie ow elremelestenhee of
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