The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-01 00:00:00

LAN INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF FACHICQDKR.
so at Nia Prins at Weetadade►.—(Hefora the Lord
Chief Banal and a Special Jay.)
(i.tetut) r. Lerits.—THE LW. NIL LOCI% CAM
he ileclarAtion stated that the plaintiff, the Rev. Joha
I,: h. is a deem maa of the church of Englaad. and the
•esdastA, Mew.. Lewis and Lewis., of Ely-place,
beuouraii as attorneys; that the plaintiff,
in ;w00d...n certain criminal charge's, retained the
f f.imint.. to otpluet his case before the police maistrate*,
. at the Central Criminal Court ; sad that
..ist s.•t ow proper skill and diligence, whereby the
• 'dl was convicted, sad suffered a king imprisonment
•se put to much expense. The damages were laid at

ie defeadaula pleaded not guilty.
Mostao Chambers, Mr. Edwin James, sod Mr.
h were counsel fur the plaintiff. Mr. Serimet Shee,
Al. sail Mr. l'harlm Pollock represented the de-
. :Ada.
'lr Chansbees, in opening the cave to the jury. said he
to admit them with feelings of the greatest anxiety,
•heelleiry became aciaaiated with all itscircurnstrumes,
weld apes with him that it was no. of the most
s iortant which had ever here brought before an English
. • of **ice. He mil so, and for this reason,
• lavolved the happiness of a gentleman and a clew-
.• who had peivimuly been $ respectable and happy
It ins "lead a question .4 the deepest importance to
eh.. were engaged in the profession of the law, who
1 to their. dictal. duties of the most sacred nature, duties
1. danishl error be undertaken unless with the isteetion
'.,11.4 thee. horicetly and to the best of their ability.
sr." .11.1,slion .4 greater public importance than
. on Allegan's) eras Mack by a client against
solicitor that be had net discharged his duty
soh ordinary cam and vigilance. The defend-
ast. is thee settee were respectable ssolicitors of the
he.:trest repels awl experience is criminal charges, and the
clia.e against them was that they had either forgotten or
setlected tho .luty which they owed their client. The
leaned counsel then went at some length into the charges
who h had been preferred agamet the plaintiff of indecent
asseilts on the two children who had been committed to
it. rare, Loy Eugenia Plummer, aged 11, and Stephanie
herreste Plummer, aged $ years, which melted is the
weal and acemictiom of the reverend gentleman at
the Contra Crimiaal Court, when he was Nee-
l. [l'd to four years' imprisonment, being two year. foe
garb await, bet was subsequently pardoned, having been
oweeesfal ia eoevicting Mary Eugrua Plummer of perjury.
lie thee poseeseled to COMment oe the course punted by
•roe of the dalaulaala„ Mr. Lewis, who was retained to
a.sduct Mr. Hatch's defame at the police court. He
mooed that Mr. Lewis, instead of submitting, as be bed
to the plaintiff's committal, should &have applied
'or teem le study the ease. Mr. Hatch has: been coni•
sobs, to liorsemoeger-lane Gaol, having been unable to
sal two aunties in AOC each. There amid not have been
more sheeting or keen& case committed to the care of
car etas -say barridee or attorney. It became the duty
of Messrs. Lewin and Lewis to obtain immediately copies
of the depoeitioaa Der* the Wadeea day. in which the
Ostend was in Haramereger-leas Gaol, the only visit
pod by the defeedante to him was es the very eight before
the trial. Mr. Hatch bad writtea and mired them to come
us I -or him, but they had failed to de so. Mn. Hatch
ma .4 mums miserably 'slims. She went to Menem
Lee. from time to time sad told thew 11111 bed Wit.
Wit. who could contradict all the camps against
bee huelatid. She had asked them to ask her
nether sod Lacy Hatch, her adopted daughter, some
.0. stens, with • view towards the production of
tivir 'edemas. Oa cope occasion Mr. Lewis had said,
•• I've wee Ballaatine, and he says there is no seed to call
',ahem." Mrs. Hatch requested to see the esejeant, but
Mr Lewis mid such a thing wee not usual. That was
sr. e,-, for nothing was more CaIIINKS, sad he recollected
on, ....mace in which a distinguished comma bed goats to
the 4a..1 at Newgate to see his client. A detective had bele
seat by the Messrs. Lewis to the residence of Mr. Plummer,
art he reported that &meek Plummer was sot a truthful
• It was, thee, the duty of the Messrs. Lewis to have
awned the matter further in order to disprove the evidence
of this yaw, imiortant wittier. When Mrs. Hatch implored
Mr. Lewis to call wheelers, he said, ' No, so, leave it all
to me." Then Mrs. Hatch, in the spay of her naiad, mid,
Olt, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Lewis, are the Phinswa to have it
all their own way—are we not to be heard:" 11 'vitalises
had bees called, the whole mm would have blest shattered
to pieces; but no witnesses were called except
to character, and the fatal verdict—for it was
a fatal verdict—was pronounced. Mr. Hatch
was ia difficulties, but his friends had supplied
him with the mesas for his defence, and the night before
the trial two cheques for SOL and 43/. were seat to the
Messrs. Lewis, sad 75/. was named by the Messrs. Lewis
for the cam of the defence. No doubt it was to the credit
.1 Mr. Lewis that afterwards, when Mrs. Hatch was in
distress, he sent her, through Mr. Ousiow, the pearlier of
the gaol, a :V. note. Mr. Hatch was desemeakl
as s delinquent of the worst kind, and the
who tried him did his duty manfully. He
sentenced Mr. Hatch to two years' imprisonment ow
each indictment. But still there were them who bad known
him who were coorinced of his innocence. Other evidence
wse &Muted, and eleven out of the twelve jurymen who
had convicted hon were on that evideece convinced of his
ionuomme. There was not a *yawn in that box who
would sot say as Sir Cornwall Lewis had said when the
petitioo was promoted to him—
Mr. Serjeast Shoe--We can't have what Sir Cornowall
Lewis said.

Mr. Clambers proceeded to my that everyman in his means
maid have mid that it wee inippeoaiesable to gnat a pardon
10 the evidence of wittiness ptodseed for the first time, and
a trailed at the trial. If the witnesses had been examined
be Mr. Leine— if he had not been guilty of gram negli-
pan, in prweeiqg the ems for Se ''east Ballantine, Mr.
II deb man have Men scquitted. He laid stream on the
mvd "must," for be said that the jury would say that if
those witessiee had bees examined, without the least doubt
Mr. Hatch must hare been acquitted. And whose fault
ira• it that this had not been the are? Hr. Hatch
to mg petitioned the crone was compelled to io-
dic; Eugenia Plummer for perjeny, and he com
ieted Eugenia Plummer on the evideace of the
very winnows who, had they bees Gilled fee Mr. Hateb, on
la trial, mod have insured his eovsttlah Having cesvicted
Eleuiv. Plummer of perjury, Yam• Hatch, despite the
sues of prejudice against lion, reesived a' free
But that could not relieve him (ram the mighty Me
bad received. The result of the cenvisties of Mr.
ma, that he was a fumed man. He had been beprlessed
ha health had suffered ; he bad sought eseplormat, sad
failed to obtain it ; there was se alter eneshdellea of
his pirespeels, Ina happiness, sed die bop" and
:Mt through the negligence of the defeedanta. Mr. Hatch
laid he bed • canes of cemplaiat, the law mid be had
a pineal eases of
Kho thaw stleatlea. easpisiat es the facts which would be
orosted _ _

Ms Hsieh eine them aliedasd was about to be ermined
Iv Mr. James, when
Tile Lord Chief Hama, who took Ilia seat for the int
time te-rtay after his meant indispositioa, said-3 billies
rhee Mal Ibis ewe wad het all to-sky, it aot branigrow,
sad that sran whet I eertainly did net aatiespatt, 1 have eon-
sinnorMed edth ey leamed heathen in the ether mark
end I hare to enspet to the leered seetared es both sides
il.4t amber judge &add lake ray plate, for 1 ebeeld be
're,. wry sapenene were Wowed by mean of say in-
sapiwity sit eat the trial. Bare yea any sidestlnn sly
het wr Martin trying the wet!
kr. Cbankert-1 ern aMint, say lard. the,. would be a
Moult,. fee I bane basJentsing year ea well
lb* lb. imirs.
'ft. Laid Chief Itarien—llten I and frankly ray I sa-
es. st set the saes Yen bare option at this sesoment
ase imijserarnat, ar le peeeeJwwith the widow Went
feeratter Judge. I ran @aphis the points he ay bream
Left._

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