The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-28 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS.- THIS DAY.)

MANSION•HOIJSIS.
A lIEUICAL sU.PEVr IN TROUBLE.
.aa Slum Vann, a medical student, residing in
A: dykroad, was this morning brought before Alderman
'•: keni..inut Phillips on dm charge of being drunk and
14.nitTlY in the City, and committing two assaults.
»ppecreil that late List night the prisoner, accompa-
t....l by two friends, attempted to get on the top of an
tu.i.40.2 in Cheapeide for the purpose of going to the

Mr. Ricketts contended that with the exception of the
evidence of the thief, which could not be admitted against
Borbam, there was no case made out against his client. He
admitted that Bottum had told Hislop's father to bring
him a load of firewood, but when he found what was
brought he sent a witness to tell Hislop that he
should not pay him, but the foreman of the works, as he
did not think that all was right about the transaction.
A witness having confirmed Mr. Ricketts' statement,
Mr. Barker discharged the prisoner Borham, and re-
manded Hislop, refusing to take bail.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

DAMAGES LAID AT LlO,OOO.

This day an action in the Queen's Bench, in
which judgment was allowed by default, came on before
Mr. Under-Sheriff Harebell and a special jury, at the
Sheriff's Court, Red Lion square, to assess the amount of
damages for a breach of promise of marriage.
The plaintiff, a young lady named Florence Kate Twins,
a clergyman's daughter, who appeared by her next friend
Mr. Edward Trevor Twins, sued the defendant, Mr. John
Norris Hunter, an officer in the army.
Mr. Price, Q.C., with whom was Mr. F. IL Lewis, in-
structed by Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, appeared for the
young lady although her brother brought the action, being
under age ; Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Alfred Wills,
instructed by Mr. Chappel, were for the defendant.
On the special jury, which was obtained at the instance
of the plaintiff, being sworn,
Mr. F. H. Lewis rose to open the case when application
was made for a few minutes' delay, as an offer of arrange-
ment was made on the part of the defendant. The young
lady was sent for, and conferred with.
The learned counsel consulted together, and on its close
Mr. Price said he was happy to state that the jury would
be spared going into the case. The defendant had made
an offer as to the amount of damage., which offer was ac-
cepted; the sum was 1,2i0/.
Mr. Coleridge said that as far aa he was concerned that
was an end of the matter. Mr. Hunter had made no im-
putation, and therefore had no retractaticn to make.
An offer bad been made and accepted, which
would prevent a public investigation, and the
matter appearing in the newspaper.. Mr. Hunter had
never dreamed of making any imputation on the young
lady, and was willing to state it, because there was no
imputation ever thought of on his part, The jury would
assess the damages at 1,1501., which bad been agreed
upon.
Mr. Under•Sberiff Burchell told the jury that all they
had to do, as the matter was settled, was to assess the
damages, by consent, at 1,2%1.
Mr. l'rice asked whether it was necessary to have a oer-
, tificate for the special jury on the part of the plaintiff,
The learned Under-Sheriff said the Judge's order was
' sufficient.

Blackwell Railway Station. lies A& diva the conductor of METROPOLITAI* RAILWA Y.—(1111S DA Y.)
the omnibus refused to allow' un to proceed, but the pri- --e----
ImeiPersjcital in beef ins!. '.,01d of the vehicle, end apoisce I An egta‘Orleig/".ry meeting of the shareholders
sraererawrtilliesesilinedwar. aactrwatwith hicfitic,awakick. rd was held at !Le MAI Terminus Hotel, Carmen-street--Mr.
the r gs. Another policeman was then C. GILPIN, it in the chair—for the wpm* of oonsi-
called, whom he cab 0 assaulted, and eventually it took &wow: the prooniono of the following tal now before Par.
five.officets to tar him to the station, where he remained Immo' ---"
t :—A bill " for enabling the Metropolitan Railway
Connasa until *',out two hours before the sitting of the Company so make a junction line in the pariah of St.
court whoa ha' was liberated on ball. Sepulchre, in the city of London, for giving effect to er.
The prisoner said he had just returned from the Derby in rangemeats with other companies, for extending the time
• Han AOM 'dna he dismissed at Ludgate-hill, and betook rlimited tor the purchase of certain land., for an endin the
the r me&
'AI, in order to catch the train at Blackwell sta. acts relating to the company, and for other purposes.'
ticr 4. Be was told that the omnibus did not go to the The CHAIRMAN said the bill had now passed through
t. Aims, but he replied that he would go with it as far as the various stages in the House of ('ommons, and there
it went, and the police then interfered. He was very was every reason to believe that it would be sanctioned
soery for what had taken place. by the House of Lords. It. objects bad been unanimously
Sir B. Phillips said he was also sorry to see • man hay- approval by previous meeting' of the tharehulders. It
log the appearance of a gentleman, and who ought to
onprovided fur the construction of a curve line from the
have conducted himself better, in such a position. He don, Chatham, end Dover Railway to the meat market
fined him :V. for being drunk, and SO& for the assaults. in Smithfield, the conformation of the agreement with the
CLERK ENWELL. Midland Company, the carrying out of the land arrange-
CHARGE OF FILONT. meets, and the prevention of litigation in connection with
Mr. Janus &rhea, a carpenter and builder in an eaten- Mr. Blogans, and what was now required was the final
sive way of humans at 10, Bright-street, Liverpool-road, sanction of the shareholders.
and John Raley, a labourer, were charged before Mr. 1 The heads of the bill having been read by the solicitor,
Barker, the latter with stealing a load of timber, the pro. I The CHAIRMAN moved and Mr. SHERRIF?, M.P.,
perty of the North London Railway. and the former with seconded, a formal resolution of approval.
feloniously receiving the thine, well knowing it to be In replying to questions
stolen. I The SOLICITOR stated Unit the probable cost of the curve
Mr. Layton, solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. Ricketts, line was about :15,000/., and that the Chancery proceedings
solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-road, defended of Mr. Blogarn were in precisely the same position as they
Borham. i were when the proprietors last met.
The North London Railway Company are widening A SHAREHOLDER expressed doubta whether the coot of
their line, and for that purpose some bonsai are being de- the curve would be limited to 35,000 i.
molished in Barnabury-grove. The prisoner Hislop wan A discussion took place with regard to • clause in the bill
engaged in that work, and the materials of the houses providing that 74000/. shall be set aside annually as an ex-
were stacked in the gardens. On Saturday evening last, tinction of the mortgage debt. The solicitor explained
between 7 and 8 o'clock, he went with two other that the committee of the House of Commons insisted on
men and • horse and cart, and took away • load ; the insertion of the clause in order to provide for past pay-
of timber. His identity was fully proved by , went* out of capital.
Mrs. King of 8, Barnabury-grove, to whom I The CHAIRMAN explained that the clause could not ope-
he spoke, asking if the men had left work. A foreman in rate for more than 20 yea s inasmuch as at the end of that
the employ of the prosecutors a day or so after the period the object willhave'been accomplished.
robbery met Hislop and accused him of the robbery, I The resolution was carried, with only three dissentients.
and he then said be would take back the wood, I Mr. Nrieri moved a resolution to the effect that the
and pointed out where he had taken it to. The 21. per cent. to be paid under the bill, by extension
matter was then placed in the hands of the police. 1 shareholders, on the conversion of their shares into
On Hislop being arrested, he faked whether " the others " ordinary stock, shall be carried to a fund available for
had been taken, and upon being asked who be meant by ' dividend.
" the others," he replied, " Borham and the old man, my The resolution, having been seconded by Mr. Hlit.Hca,
father. I don't see wby I should suffer for them alone. was put and carried.
Borham has been on to me for the last three weeks to get , The SOLICITOR said it must be understood that, if the
him some wood. It was all arranged at the Cattle Market conditions just agreed to were not assented to by the
on Friday. Me and the old man got drunk on Saturday, ! House of Lords, the clause must be struck out altogether.
and then took the wool to Borham." Borham, when arrested, I Mr. NEILL) said that, without such a condition, be and
said the wood was taken to his yard on Saturday, but by others would certainly not have consented to the cum-
whom he could not say ; but he emphaticaly denied the I promise which it was intended to carry out.
other prisoner's statement, repeated to him in his presence. The adjourned half-yearly meeting was then held pro
The witnesses, in cross-examination by Mr. Ricketts, formai, and in consequence of the position of the oom-
said that Borham was a respectable man—that be had car- pony's affairs in Parliament further adjourned till the Bth
ried on business in the neighbourhood for years—that of July.
there was no attempt of any sort to conceal the timber, The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
and that the gates of the yard in which the timber was the Chairman.
placed are made of lattice-work, so that any passer-by
could see in.

LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

This day a special general meeting was held at
Waterloo-station, for the consideration, under the Wham-
chi& standing order, of a bill to extend the time for com-
pleting certain of the authorised works of the London
and South-Western Railway Company, and for other Far-
poses, the principal objects of which are to extend the
time for completing the Kensington and Richmond and
the Aldershot railways; to authorise the making of a
carriage road near Brookwood-station ; to reduce the oom-
pany's capital with reference to the abandonment of the
Ilfracombe Railway ; to extend the company's powers for
acquiring land for general purposes, and to confer on the
company powers for the improvement and disposal
of their superfluous land. It is not proposed
to take any power to raise additional capital.
Also for the consideration of the agreements with the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Company for defining
the arrangements and relations of the two companies
in respect to the traffic between London and Portsmouth,
the Epsom and Leatherbead, and the Wimbledon and Croy-
don lines, and for authorising the exercise of the borrow-
ing powers granted by the South-Western (Aldershot) Act
of Ifi6s.

Captain ll•tiGtes, who presided, in moving the usual
confirmatory resolution as to the bill pending in Parlia-
ment, stated that it was intended to obtain powers to ex-
tend the time for completing the Aldershot branch to 31
July, 1870, but the works would nevertheless be pushed
on with all despatch.
After • brief discussion the bill was unanimously
confirmed. In reference to the arrangements with the Lon-
don and Brighton Company, a special report was pre-
sented, the principal features of which are the following :
As regarded the Charing-cross Railway the directors en-
tered into an arrangement with the South Eastern Com-
pany to the effect that the South Eastern Company would
erect a station on the Charing.cros• line at Waterloo—and
would efficiently work it—would charge in respect of the
traffic joining or leaving the Charing-cross Railway there,
the Charing-cross Railway fares for the time being, and
would commence the work as soon as may be—that they
would provide the means of passing between the Waterloo
station and the new station, and shut up Black-
friars station ; should any points of difference arise,
the Duke of Richmond to act as umpire. The
directors congratulate the proprietors on this result,
which they do not doubt will operate greatly to the advan-
tage of the companies and the public. Since 1859 friendly
agreements bad been in existence between the London and
Brighton and this company respecting their railways and
traffics in the competing district of Portsmouth, in the
district of the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway, and in
that of the Wimbledon and Croydon Railways. These
several agreements, although acted upon in good faith for
several years past, had never received formal sanction,
and it was considered by both companies that in the
altered circumstances incident to the passing of
the Working Union Bill, each arrangement required
for its just working in future some modification. There
were other relations between the companies, established
by act of parliament and agreement, in respect of the Toot-
ing, Merton, and Wimbledon Extension Railway, and ac-
cording to the terms of the Working Union Bill, as
&weeded, these relations would, on its coming into opera-
tion, be obligatory on the companies in union, iu the same
1 manner as they now bound the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Company. The directors further asked from
1 the proprietors a resolution sanctioning the exercise by
the board of the power of borrowing 53,3:301., as authorised
b the South Western (Aldershot) Railway Act, 1885, on
the necessary certificate of a justice that sufficient Aare
capital had been paid up to justify this additional bor-
rowing.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the proprietors on pates
being at length established between the two companies,
and that passengers would now be able to get from
Cannon-street and Charing-cross to Waterloo and from''
Waterloo to Charing-cross and Cannon-street. The union
bill of the London, Chatham, and Dover, the South
Eastern, and Brighton Companies not having passed, the
agreement was necessarily between the South Western
and the South Eastern. The arrangement as to the
Portsmouth traffic was under the present agreement for
ten years, instead of, as heretofore, being terminable on
six months' notice. There was to be a reduction in the
charge to the South Western in regard to the maintenance
of the Leatherhead and Croydon and Wimbledon lines,
inasmuch as it was to be presumed the other companies,
when united, would run more trains on those lines than
the South Western.

In reply to Mr. S. Booth it was stated there were to be
no restrictions as to the number of trains to be run by the
South Western on the Direct Portsmouth line, so that
there was no danger of the public suffering in regard to
the accommodation which aught be afforded.
The heads of the several agreements having been read,
• resolution confirming them was agreed to. A further
resolution authorising the exercise of the borrowing powers
under the Aldershot Act was also carried, and the pro-
ceedings terminated in the usual manner.