The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-13 00:00:00

WESTMLNISTER COUNTY COURT.-YESTUDAT.

Novo 7. Illatizr, Eft, Irmo
TR■ " FAMILY HERALD" ♦ND AN AUTHORESS.

This was n action brought 171711;:iieor11;1117ggs; pro-
prietor and publisher of the " Family Herald" newspaper,
against Mr. Charles Henry Sire, barrister. of No. 1, Lin-
coln's-inn-square, to recover the sum of 101, for money ad-
vanced under the following extraordinary circumstances :
The plaintiff's solicitor stated ihat the claim was for an
amount forwarded by plaintiff to defendant at Scarborough,
on the 13th of November last, by two post °Mai orders for
flu. each, without any valid ccaliderstion, and arose out of
BOON transactions between the plaintiff and defendant's wife,
as authoress. The parties have been twice before the court.
Upon the first aerostat) Mrs. Sin sought to recover of the
present plaintiff the balance of a sum of money, being the
price eh-rged for a work called "The Maiden's Heart,"
which elm represented th- pleintiff contracted to purchase of
her for publication in his journal at a particular rate, and
wee nonsuited on the ground that there was no specific con-
tract. An application was then made for a now trial, sad
the matter was argued at some length, when the
eoart ruled that if there had been any contract
between the parties, it was re...jaded by a letter written by
Mr. Sim to Mr. Bigge. At that time plaintiff held a manu-
script production by Mrs. Sin, which had been tient for pub-
lication ; but se, in comequence of what had occurred, 1.•
could not publish the work, he offered to return the docu-
ment and take five guineas of defendant in discharge of the
present claim. Defendant, how.ver, refused to return any
portion of the 101., for the recovery of which plaintiff now
said whitest dint:nation. It was then contended that them
were many cues to show that the plaint ill was sated. d to
recover, inseams% as there had been no contract between
the parties; and if, on the matter', such contract had been
reminded by mutual understandiao, and that the money sent
by plaintiff to defendant by Poet-Aim °refire hod Men oaid
over by mistake, Mr. Sim being entitled to have back the
nasauserpx
The Judge, after hearing the evidence and counsel on both
rides, gave a verdict for the plaintiff lror the fuel amount
claimed, grounding his judgment nn the Net, that there had
bma no specific agr-eribmi betweea the
.p.trties, and that
payment for ti • deli ndant'e Wei my production was wadi-
lions' on its aocaptabso or publication.

THE POLICR COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A amigos ATPLICATION.—A youog man of respectable
a es who gave his name and address to Aldermen
arces, raids application under very singular airmail-
steams:
If. had, he said, written to the Secretary of State for ad-
vice in what manner to proofed in a ease which had, in the
pert of the country in which it oecurrel, excited • great deal
of surmise sod conversation. A lady to whom ha was to
lava been united in marriage suddenly died about the
eiiddle of January. Ha had Han for soma tints paying hie

stage's:

addresses to Me, badthe marriage was it have takes plan !
in a few dap, Ist be, nth.r end seepfether, wiee were
opposedtethenseek bed piton herdnism
and the rapid soperran of death, wen auirtnyt
cirmusame, se seasoned with that even lad' er the oast.
Orion that the point kid been prossasseely ended sit
of the world. TM belief that the softening yeses
lady had sot died a antra dos* goisedusutkon
fact that one dthe denneeft Illmobil innt
Wdie bad has orally trend by koirnedligto gin bet
tb:ks father-Mlaw bed owees.thee homed' bettlinerlbgn
that the anis, should take plass was ion ski
servile. Ineeked sad annul by Ark tie ap-
plicant repsionsi the nano senses erne to
his koonedge to the mean ohs was illoinellsed to hold
an is not span the lardy Wow isidied by tie
i.lif
the neibiel einsiesit of *a doomood i bid Hubs,
now bobg woad ores, doollosel edsg a outtra=
the nesseltybtrma pmesediae. Several of thinness*,
of the seigh in a requisition to the coroner
upon the istden es the ground of public Judie. ; but whe-
ther an improper Mame@ had been exercised for the pur•
pose of stopple, tawdry, or means of prevenlon had been
adopted in sup y other way, certain it was that the coroner
Civend in his determination not to summon a jury to
mino into the remarkable circumstances of the ems.
Merman Carden—What was the opinion of the medical
man who attended the deceased ?
The applicant—He said that she died of a disease of the
brain. I bad not seen her for six weeks before she was
taken 111, and she died three days after her first attack.
Alderman Carden—Had she any property ?
The applicarit—tibe was to have etme in for some
property in a very short time, and she was about 27 years
of age. The property she was to have inherited from Mr
father. Sir George Grey, upon reading my statement of the
bets which I have represented, advic d me to apply to the
magistrates, but I apprehend, tint an application to them
would not be so effective as an application to the Lord Mayer
or his representative, and I therefore determined to come
here. It is neomeary that I should state one fact of a ala.
gelar moue. The vault is which the deceased wes buried
was opened is the Bigot, and nest day I was charged as one
of Ike violators of the sepulchre.
Alderman Cuden—lt is quite impossible that the Lord
Mayor could interfere in a matter of such a nature wholly
out of his jurisdiction. I would have you apply to the ma-
gistrates of the district in which the lady died, if you are
sot satisfied with the result of your appeal to the coroner
and the medical man, and I have no doubt that dee attention
will be paid to you is such a case by every gentleman in the
comnession of the peace.
The Lord Mayor received Ils. from " Adolph" for the
poor boa.