The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

Kale InttUignut.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Ocr. 28.
(Before Mr. Couuni•doner Font,bisque.)
KL ILLUNDIZL, 1711 AVIISTANT MESSZNORR.
Mr. Lawrence said he understood that they were likely to
less the mambas of Mr. BloodeD, the aterldant messenger.
Ha regretted this, so Mr. Blundell wee one of the moat
honoured servants of that court. Be had received from the
Lord Chancellor the appointment of messenger to the court
at Liverpool. lie (Mr. Lawrence) had known him In mu-
mmies' with the London courts upwards of thirty years, and
a more honourable, intelligent, and trustworthy servant had
never been employed in the public service, has or elsewhere,
No man was better entitled to the reward which, after years
of hope deferred, he bad now received. It was desirable
that the practitioners of Liverpool should know the opinion
which waa entertained here of Mr. Blundell's ability and

integrity.
The Commtnw—l quite concur in what Mr. Lawrence
has said. I SID orr7 to lose the Fairview of Mr. Blundell,
but son very glad that be is going upon promotion. Freon
de mow in which he has conducted his duties here, and
from this esperlence which he has acquired, I have not the
alighted doubt that he will be • very useful officer at
Livsevool.
(Before Mr. Commisitioner Holroyd.)

THZ ROYAL FIRITISH RANK.
There was a meeting appointed to-day under this bank-
ruptcy for the purpose of discusoing a ilium wade by Mr.
Myers, builder, against the mute. The claim arms out of
tho alterations wade for the bank at South So. Home, a &oft
time before the failure. The matter wan again adjourned by
consent.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

NEW COURT.

(Before the Reoorderr.)
At the sitting of thte court the trial of the two defendants,
Dorn and Aran., for threatening to publish a libel rellertlng
upon the Hon. T. Cedogen, was mourned by the examines
tionof witnesses for the defendant

The filet one celled wan

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Mr. Wollaston, examined by Mr. Griffiths—l em an en-
&neer, residing neer Derby. lam still engineer to the ems-
pany. I wee one of the directors of the Submarine Tele-
graph Company. I recollect Evens being with the company.
I have piecethen ceased to be a director. I was seldom In
the instrument room, but have been upon some few occasions,
sad was seldom there without seeing Mr. Cadogan there.
It was more than once. Upon one occasion I saw him
deliberately reading over the menages. Upon one
oera/don I saw him take a message from low down upon
the Sie and put it upon the top. I recollect that Evans wee
at the time in the room. It Is most certainly the duty of
directors not to interfere with ths menages. No other di-
rector did so. I have seen him look at mileages and go out
of the room without transacting my business. I have seen
I him go from there to the stockbrokers. I have seen him do
that twice In the same day. The Lrokers were within sight
of the company's offices. I have seen him in the instrument
room, end within half an hour at the brokers', Mesas.
Loynd., Surgey, and Monkey. That was the name of the
Linn then.

Cow-examined by Mr. Bs'tontine—l did not mention the
circumstance to them. One of them wse hero yesterday. I
have read mums.. I do not consider it any harm for a
director to read • inemage. It is their duty not to do m. I
swear I had no meaning. Hirers done eo several time., but
not generally. I did so out of curiosity. I read them
without an object. lum not aware that I hare been ordered
out of the instrument room. I have been told that Cadogan
said to Evans, " What does he do here r' An order was
that no one should be permitted to enter the instrument
room without a signed order. I have never been refused one.
I do not recollect saying that I would nerve Ctdcgan out.
I du not recollect saying that I bad a strong feeling spinet
him. Inn tell you if you like what it is.
Reeramined-1 have never ran ordered out of the room.

I am still engineer to the company.
Hy Mr. Bellentizte-1 have not acted asdirector since 1864.
Albeit Lionel Evons—l am clerk in the Admirelty de-
partment, Somerset-house. I remember my brother, the de-
fendant, and Capt. Thorn coming, on Saturday, the Bth
of August, to Somerset-house • ft wan between three
and four. My brother amend me the letter. I
was In the Submarine Company's service from No-
vember, 1861, to January, 1866, when I left for my pre-
sent appointment. I was deputy superintendent of the
instrument room. Mr. Cedes= was continually there ; his
not being so was an exception. I never ecnienther his re-
maining long, be was always in and out three or four times a
day. It was the duty of my brother and myself to attend to
the mesesgea. Mr. Cadogan had nu oners there. He
would look at the forward and received ieenorige., which he
would read, and directly leave; he has come in with his hat
and coat onto look at the merges, and then gone out. I have
seen him do so daily. It wee not upon the business of the
oilier, nor was there any very imperative necessity for his '
thong wt. Mr. Cadogan has said to Mr. EVAZIP, " If any very
important memege arrives I 'hull he in the board-room." I
wee told by him to take any important news which arrived,
whether for the public, or government, or the prom, to his
'house ; I have made extracts from them and done so. I tent
I theta to his private residence Ly his own instructions so to
do. Ito has come in and lookod at messages, and gone out
without gaging anything about the Waimea of the office.
Upon one uitalloll he came in his wig and gown into the
branch office at the House of Commons, and salted if there
was any news. Upon one occasion he directed a despatch,
I think it wee for the Time., to be sent to Brookes a. I
well recollect It, bemuse I had some doubts whether the
word spelt plw., should not have been plume, and he said
the former teas right. Tim raeareges are kept numbered
cone, utively , I miss 100, 10.5, 114, 140, 147, from the
pereel now in court. When Captain Thorn ems with my
brother to me at Somerset-house, he did not take'any part In
the diacue'ion about tke letter ; Ito was a good way of when
my brother ehowed it to um.
Cross-examined-1 did not think It right for Mr. Cadogan
to look at the mouags. I do not know that Mr. Cade-
gen was the mans of my getting my present situelion. Cap-
tain Thorn and my brother lett together after the interview
about the letter. I was never charged tit the Marylebone
Police-court with any offence. I have nothing to do with
my brother's pecuniary matters.
Mr. Ballantine said he was now able to produce the mis-
sing tomeageo ; they had been taken from the bundle In
consequence of the notice given by the defendants for them
to be produced.
lie-exemined by Mr. Parry—l never was charged with
anything in my life.
Thomas Mark, another clerk in the company's employ,
now etotioned at Oravesend, remembered teeing Mr. Cada-
pon pi frequently into the instrument room, end read the
mesaages. He had sent a menage from Gravesend in
August lest for Evans, relating to this matter.
Richard Hughes, a coomenger at that time attending upon
the instrument room, also gave evidence so to the frequent
attendance of Mr. Cadogan In the room where the messages
were token. .

George Brett examined by Mr. Parry—l am a director of
the company. It is not the duty of directors to look at
menages, but they might in a rase of necessity. I ehonld
not think that it was necersary to do FO two or three times a
day. I cannot say what Mr. Caring= thought necessary. I
cannot remember any particular complaint being made
by Evans. Its did make sumo remark to me about Mr.
Cadogan. Evans came to my private residence. The coin-
ylaint related to his discharge. Witnree had never hoard of
these transactions until the present matter.
Croewexamined—Evans only complained of Cadogan's
hush treatment of him.

Mr. Seymour then called.
Mr. Parry said he had promised to call him, but did not
feel it necessary to ask him any question.
Mr. lisllantins—l have nothie to ark him.
The Recorder—l will ask him one question. Do you
Ctlogun

Witness—No'--
Wm. 'Wert, another rnetutetsger to the company, proved
that he lied taken parcels from the company's offers to Mr.
Cadsgan's private bone. lie also bad often seen him in the
met, ument room. He bad seen Mr. Cade's= at the com-
pany's oaten as late as twelve at night.
Croes•esamloed—That was when the office was kept open
all night for businees.
Mr. Edwards was a member of the Submarine Company
and one of the directurs, and from 1852 to 1864 bad scarcely
ever missed a board room. He had been Into the instrument
room perhaps ones in six months, but had never read
a message. Witness had never beard way t ompl..int of Mr.
Csdogan. Never knew be was In the habit of lead-
ing the messages. Mr. Ceder= had never mentioned it to
the board. He never knew until thie time that Baron
Rothschild's message had been sent out of its turn.
Mr. 'Wetenball, the stock-broker, was then called, but
he did not crealilish the fact alleged in the libel, of the stocks
falling one-half per cent. ern the day named.
Tits was the dcfendants ease.

Mr. Ballanting in reply, said he did not propose to follow
very clearly what bin Mende had gone into, bat complained
in a moat pointed manner of the attack which they bad
thought fit to make upon Mr. Cedogan, simply because that
gentleman had chosen to torn hie mind to commercial pursuits,
and vocalists in the funds, rather than follow thigrofeesion
to which he belonged. Not anything, be contended, had been
shown to peeve the averment contained in the 11 that be
had /wailed himself of the position he held to benefit himself
in those epeculatione, but, to fact, the evidence for the de-
fence negatived curb a supposition as It proved that the
government messagee were all in cypher, which no one con-
nected with the telegraph had the least knowledge of. No-
thing more clearly proved the falsity of the conclusion
sought to be established against Mr. Caduran than the fact
of the funds net being affected ae it was alleged that they
were. What did the Peery about the Baron Rothschild come
to Evans mid he had marked the =visage ; that turned out
to be is false oonelueion. Again, it wee abundantly clear, from
the fact of Mr. Cadogan having set the clerk right about the
word " phase " that it was a amenity for him to look at the
messages to prevent errors in their communications. Mr.
Wollaston's evidence proved that other directors had done
what Mr. Cadogan was blamed for. After going itiff
through the main facts proved for the defence, the learned
courted said that in his opinion the hon. gentleman had moot
fairly answered the mom-examined= to which be had been
subjected, and that be left the witness-box unacathed.
The Recorder then proceeded to rum up, briedy remarking
upon the evidence, which he went through with gnat
minuteness. The case was divided into two pate—the con-
spiracy an i attempt to extort, and the other the plea ofjuiti-
dation. In the first plam they must Ithly emirs
at a conclusion that Captain Thos's wilt to Mr.
Cadogan wee for that purpose, end spin the pert
Emu bad taken in the matter, Is dfl that think tin