The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

LAW INTILLIGENCL

(TBDI DAT.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
tos..s• is Rata).—(Before Lord Cud Justine Ede.)
rtar..,,t• 000rw—TIIIL 11091,NU1 tre WWI e Calla
at:AM
an -Litt, n s out of tie bills irkiith were
,I • t fr:an the defendant, the mho-
the Kim of °tide is this euestry, nada denim.
,t4.‘11 what have been sore then Oftfe laid before the
I, IL, vase came ou t•fal at the siMingt after ILL
•. iol.o terse,. when the pituntire ..trat,el
' •‘ ov'il waists's', the tenon; but Wales
to allow him to .lo so. and entered a nonsuit. The
tared his come in the usual coarse
hat tiot being satiated with that Sus-
.. matte, was not bn/Libt .J4Ol/0 :Et oust.
lr rokt Aix for a MIS for the :caster to review
• t. thrve I. aria:—First, that tee weadvieluol
• detoited is this country from the Ist .A..1.,-ust sail! the
in lieemuher, wdelv account of
b. • n.l, .n.I he claimed to her all•wred hie experows
• h.• whole .4 that time, but the master
is,vitevt fur fuer days u:e.riying that the
.1. fet..:sa: might hese bees exesained Were a 'meter, and
to !WM. It woe stihenlitt.! ts. 're . one, how.
, that it was essential that the defendant
be examined and rrom-•te=ined before the
~), and that it would have bets out to useless
.eat he should have been exassiaml before a toaster, and
0.41111110U0111 reed lrfore the jun. '"he saxes' point
ohs Viet the mentee led refaced to allow toe eopyleg the
. anisatias .4 the witnesere ia proiwedin*. in etiaDeery
the itformatioe of ...awl The third pact mu that Mr.
• the optirias,had bees subpomed ad. i 'Vitae", aad
••• 1/fodlit* powerful &ewes fur the eternisation of the ac.
jiater of the : a very important question Drift,
sMalter the areptasce or tie h—oft all the bill lead been
written first. Mr. ?end bed been paid three ptinsas
a day, but the sesame oaly *Limed ate guinea a day.
The Lon' ehief Justice said there would be a rule upon
• feet two points, but as to Mr. DeDon.l. there was a
.tale whi odd that !insane in hie nowtha of life should
allowed only rem gums a day, and it wood be nand, to
sake any etroMam to that rule.
Rat rutted.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GrILDHALL.
CLEVER ouorurnas.

1, as Lea". a reepeetably.ireseed yams woman,
lobe was neregaised as hams' been enovirted at this court
about twelve siosthe ago, was charged hefore Alderman
Vechi with have; aslawfully in her pommies fire new
•lutio:s, valued 21 is. 71, which were supposed to have
15.,. stoles. That charge. however, as the evidence ad-
vaned, was merged is asotber fur the actual (dopy of the
I impiety is question.
Poheesermant Embory mid about 4 o'clock is the after.
sea be sow the primmer mad emperor lemmas at the bottom,
ligation. bill, but as ears es they raw hiss the primmer
walked up liamtree-easrt, sad the other wombs cams
towords Lora. He followed the primmer who immediately
threw down nee shawls and tried to midis her amps • he,
•mwever, emend both lore sad the y, but the 'other
mama ma taco
a Loose sad at die back.
Geo. Tunaelry, assioluell to ewe. Emery, drapers, of
t. ferringdon•street, said the two ironies were in their
dep that .ifteroooo, aid were take., into the showsoom to
try.,. The WOMBS pot is custody took of
let amstleasil threw it on a pale of shawls at the emus
=ism se them toned es the_prietater._
_After try* ea
issellet they said wales Uwe would wit tine, and
the ether warm laid eh* would brim; her husband to see V
he ermild like any of this, witness had in Mock attar
which the y left. The shawl pr.slueesi still bore Messrs.
Emery's labels ois them. and were taken from the pale
'vita the missile which the other woman threw over them.
some farther evidence was given relative to the former
..o.ictios of the pnaoaer, after which she was fully COM.
r.ittrd fur trial.

CLEW( EN WELL.
CII•ROC OF CUTTOIG AND WOUNDING.
powerfully-built fellow, who gave the name of
Pney Host, seed 42, a watchmaker, residing at 9, Henry-
ore.t, Mt. Lake's, wee clanged with mitt* sod wounding
ilmbeth Whits with a pair of scissors
Mr. Wallebn appeared for the prisoner.
From the evWseos of the complainant, it appeared th.at
this (Saturday) moiling, between the hours of I and
i. the primmer, with whom she cohabits, came borne the
110:11. for liquor, and began quarrelling with her. While
de wet pima( him his supper he struck her iu the mouth,
.ad afterwards took up a pair of sciason and stabbed her
is the breast. When she had partially recovered from
taw efforts of the hos et Wood, she called in a polioe-con•
%table, who took the prie.oer in custody. She was sober,
but the primmer was drunk. The prisoner need at is. tune
to &me bee, and she left him, hut returned to him en kis
premise that he would never beat her again, hut lately he
bad menial his old practices, and what for she did not
know. fihe was afraid that he would do her some serious
iVraad as she did not intend to live with him spa, sal.
kiwi to he bound over to keep the peace.
The primmer pleaded drunkeunem as an excuse, and said
that the estpLinset first struck him.
Er. Inyucourt remarked that he woe not quite certain
that he ought sot to punish the defendant for the assault,
entwithsteading that it was slight and that the complain•
sat did sot press the charge. This wee ..author of the
wham effect. of drunkenness, cal be might my that aim•
teen rases out of twenty that ease before him arose from
the same cause. He then ordered the defendant to find two
respectible curette, to the sum of rd. each to keep the
poses for six scathe.
The prisoner was locked tip in default.
MARTLEHO.NE.

THI ILLACLTS or BAD COKPANT PANT currs.—

ATTEMPTED IMMCIDL
P rykt, as istonsakerlooking girl, aged 17, was
pinewl at the bar IMfere Yr. Mansfield, charged with at-
%empties to commit suicide, by taking arsenic.
flordero, 118 D, deposed to seeing a crowd round
As prisoner, in Groat Jameestreet, Lissom-grove,
aloft twelve o'clock lest night. He ascertained that
tie primer, who mend very ill, had taken poison, and
she bed a paper in her hood labelled " poison." Sh, wan
tam I. the dispennery, sod an emetic given her, when .he
was knead to have taken • quantity of arsenic.
A poor, bat doom* elect W 001•64 stepped into the witness
tos, and mid skeins She mother of the prisoner. and that
•lie left her bone before Mistimes. She bad formed ac•
.IYAMIIIDOS with a set of bad associate% and was frequently
pa( to • puny pl is their neighbourhood (Kemal-green I,
what had been the ruin of her. She had bees coustently
reproving the prisoner for bar oonduct. About a week be.
I.,re chnstmea she left borne saying she waiving to attend
apse her grandmother. and she (the mother) finding that
die did Sot cane home at the enormities of the time. she
wee! and found her daughter had never bees nes, the grand-
mother. There wan a good Lorne for her ao far as lay is the
p.wer of a woman like her to get. The prissier was well
bled round the neighbourhood and could always get work as
kusikese, at which she was very clever.
?mouser (is a hardened rossiner) said her Yeleiter blether
knocked her about, sod the mother allowed it, which the
mother denied.. -

Yr. Maaalleld reautaded her for awes days. so that the
&plant tai4ht hare ea opportunity d luriagius her to her
ult., at duty.

Y A KLBOIPAUGHATREET.

AMIAOLT ON A CONATLIII.S.
MI Drsaunond Lfspd, 5, St. Goorp'vterrece,
Hyde pub, was dhei befog, Mr. Tirwhitt sonedt-
ss pulice-cosollehle beeteo, 110 C.
"taus said he woe p. along Regest.street, she.
,he defesdsot. who me employ of s soles. ems W-
illed Awn and pushed him violently. He oohed whet be
a;r,nt by it, when the defesdest replied that be woe •
utlemea. Wiles= told him that kb conduct was set that
"lie, and defendant then landed and pulled his about.
•ol ~ then is... up.
Mr Tyrwhitt said he should like to hear hie (the cow
*WI.%) lb. wool “rnolian." It wan as at.
tempt oi would Jo at sdterist. asd wou ant do at all.
The cosatable. In enotiasetwe, wai,l be told the dc•
tewient to en away. and the defends' then snick him on
the beck of hi. heed with his inuleelli. The defesdast 11.1•1
"Ty track.
Mr E Loeb dad the fact wax, the dr.(' at had receivrd
• sins/ es the hood I. the Crum, is. bevies hoes eat to
toe the boner hod Wien as effect on Lea.
Tyrwhitt sold ...efts os the poliee roold sot be
1..4 ewer, sod inedtbittlefendent 104. or 14 ,by.

thertiese qr NOTriPttaall.—Dttring the pant
•••11 than Idle ban se ithassisat is thii dortitution of our
'um With Ihe aratinaed esaerity of the weather, the
4of **waif, in tho baddlag Ear*
Peeve mad the general coo4ittc of the
PIO" r seaderal wore datrewieg. la some parts
ta. lowa ea esterii.• vialtatiow has bees made by
'9•• and adaieters, Scripture reader., town rota.
"aft.. awl other generoa. Moak. • sail the reports
1....e1ed reveal a state daitatatine: and eafferiag for
so parallel can be food ia the biatosy
'4lisehens. sad which mat either be atittgabed, ia'
.41", awl efratively, or .eat awaken of Oaf popehtties
.11 thro .heer etamition. liftlividuala sad &NAM'S
lave etnit:gled haul ad Last to heap up au ußftlr,-"'
'r wp•dalabh. and avail the nacesaity of renal. B.V.
ambed to bringer sad sold. mad are sow
'''-r Ilhartes of the Imam, or .I.pendent as the darks/he
".kwslona of Mead.. (lathes sad hesitate have heea
1"...1er said to oblate foal sad Lye. add parents and
"duos base bees road rroa.Ld together, with bat few
.• ....Met them. sad with the lest rsty of hope shame
•• 'usei•iiibai, tremblingly sensitises the =di of
huel eharity. la gone came has
'off and In °tother.&James have Wes en.
defy the power of niediAne, wad nlurh must
, • t.ro;sat• it, • fot•ttatrao ray, NO'

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

TALLOW MA RKET.-(TH 18 DAY.)
n,, =riot is steady, at the following price* :—Towt;
tallow, :At. lid. ; Patertimg Y.C. ot the *Pot, 601. ;
Jamorry to Maras, 60a. ; Muth, alone. 602. 6d.; Arnl
to Juae, 36a. 6d. ; Oct to Des., ais.

MARKET AVIENAGIIIL —Twos tallow, Gls. 9d. ; fat bill
ditto,2l4l. ; yellow Itowista, Gla Gd. ; melted AU: ,
434.; r. nigh ditto, Xs. ; tallow graves, 141. ; good dreg,. To.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Meaara. Davis and Co. report trade v. dull at Let day's
price,. Prime meadow hay, 755. to njn. ; aupertur ditto,
to 1106. ; iaferior do., 401. to :.7s. od. ; rower', 3011. to
; clover, dd, Ma. to 115 a. ; datto second cut, 70s. to
titra.; straw, Ms. to 435.

COVENT GARDEN.—(TIIIS DAY.)
kupplics of all kind. of winter erten. begin to fall oft.
and prices for them are rising. Pineapples and grapes hare
not altered since our Let report. Oranges may dill h-
old/knit.' et about la.t week's prier.. Shadlocks may 1.
ih muintitr. also American Lady Apples, which redli
2.. per dowi. Good cobs may to had st from 1.. t..
1.. lA. per lb. Broccoli, cabbages, and ail kinds of green.
ore nht wival to the demand. Eaceilcut endive in, bow.
ever.,furnished from Algiers. Average. and Freaeli'beans
may also be had, but price% for them are high. Cucuta.
hers are scarce. Cut tlowern chiefly of orchid% gat'
doubt., Chise.,e primulas, violets, re:oue:wtte, heath'., and
ruses.

'Zr'
Pine Apples, per lb., to torts
Grope,. per Ito., to to It,
Pomegranate,. each, 44 to ed
Ptah, per Aloz 3t to 44

Broccli. pich.. id to lid

ipplee. per &a., *I to Is 6.1
wr 100.4 to 10s
Limes, per too. es to lOs
Nue, Cob, per lb Is to hOJ
:ARLES.

YEGITI

ntwa~P4n tole
rabhopeo, p. dna, to Id to 3, Yd
rotator,. p ton. 1000 to 1304
p.r da to to Od

. _ —
per cwt , Ss to We --
plr bunch. lid to 104
per hunch, Gd to Sd
.pantwh. ptr dew.. 41 ad to Ss
t ucumbers. sack bOd to Ss
tt t h..lte• per dm., 48 to 001
I.ok prr dot.. toed to is

ptr beadle. le Id to hid

Omni, per I +nit ve, letal to 5 tal
Aaparactes, per ban., las to :rs
lleakide, per Dna., Od Joao od
Shallot, per It., 6tl to 84
llarlw, per 14, 11.1 to atl

Ixttuet 4.cab .p.se.,lsOdtolattl
too, per wars. Is to Is Od
anent e. per 'core. le to le tid
Illoneradlett, per hon., lead to Is
Mackin onto. P. .tt.. to to do 0.1
Parbley. per 12 horichee. 4. to G.
Savor) per batch, td to Id

.11essr.4. Sautiderx acid Otley continue to publigh
on the Ist of each month their Oriented Bodfiti of liters-
tom drama. scierme, and tut, fat India. China, Ai...trails,
and the colonies. The Budget is composed of some thirty-
oil closely.printed pages. eon a vast amount of infor-
mation respecting the &foremeetloasd topimi,
AV gni. AN M•IL.--LIVIDIPOOL, SATURDAY.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Ambit, which sailed to-day for
New Tort. took titi,lTtl. b spatie.

- •
THE. DROWNED WALLSIND COALMELD.—A large
and isfluential seeetieg of the coal sweets of the earth ef
Eagles,' was held on Wednesday lest at the Taff Hotel,
Newcastle-on-Type, for the purpose of eansiderhig the de-
tails of a scheme for the drainage of the eaeldeld east of
Newiastle. which is sow under water. The chair was
occupied, in the absence of Lord Ha by Mr.
Matthew Hell, a large rolliery owner. Mr. T. J.
the
te
taxing before the meeting the scheme, staled that the Mel.
held east of Newcastle measured about 30 wears miles.
The whole of this was, in mining language, "drowned."
Water had bees permitted to accumulate till it had risen
more than 100 fathoms above the high main seam, so that,
in point of fact, there was a lake of 100 fathoms deep under
pound, and the consequence was that the high main won
was entirely submerged, while the lower seams could only
be worked by • system which, though ingenious, was very
oneartido. Chat iron caissons, or tubbing, were need in seg.
mats of SO inches in height and 4or ri feet long. These
were wedged together, and thus formed a sort of darn, which
was not, however, to be depended upon. At fiebburn a
fracture in the tubbing had occasioned the entire loss of the
colliery, sad might have also occasioned great loss of life.
Cast iron was therefore not to be depends!! upon. Cooler
these circumstances it was .desirable to adopt some general
plan of drainage. It was therefore peepoeed to draiu a
district of 21,000 acres, bounded by the main dyke on the
the sea on the east, and the town of Newcastle on the
west. This might be accomplish... 4 by placing draining
engine. at Jarrow, Hoyden, and other places in the dis-
trict. They did not need to go to the bottom of the basin
all cases, but to intercept the feeders would do as well. H.
did not go into details, but, considering the vast amount of
mineral wealth which was lying unemployed, he thought
that they were fully instilled in adopting a scheme, how.
ever extensive it was, which would utilise that wealth. In
answer to various questions, Mr. Taylor stated that the
quantity of water was so great is the pits that at Percy
Main Colliery, before it was abandoned, eighteen times mare
water than coal was raised at it. The AIM Willa was re-
quired to carry out the proposed scheme was only 10,000 f.,
sad the Lamers of coal which were now left in the high
main seam only amounted in themselves to more than double
thalami. After several gentlemen had ex pressed their opiaion
=Mg the scheme, a committee of cealownen
there was appointed for the purpu.t of corurklering it
and examining the bill to be preseutel to parliament in its
favour.

THE SLAVE TRADE ' has been re-
ceived from Nassau, Bahamas, to the effect that cone cit
the smelter and remoter Wands of that colony was in
Deosuitter last visited by the captain and crew of a slaver,
who had been wrecked an • nsighbounng reef, end who,
after forcing the keepers of the English lighthouse to assist
them in disembarking WO Afri.odi slaves, obtain I
pomession of a colonial schooner, in which they sailed
to the opposite coast of Cute, where they procured a large
mint which returned with them canned ce the
*nag cargo before the force which the governor, en bear-
* a intelligence, had despatched to their rescue, could
arrive. It is worthy of note that 400 slave* were wrecked
off another of these islands in August last ; and that, on a
the d, an exploring party, sent by the governor in May last,
discovered • hanscome, in which there was weer !Meer'
ant* of slaves having been recently kept, while wasting ter
an opportunity of deportation to Cuba.

STRANG' POISONING CASE tR Noueouf.—A
mysterious ame of poisoning has hemmed at Dim Norfolk.
A day or two since Albert, the youngest son of Mr. R.
Aldrich, a resident in the town, was taken suddenly ill and
died in a few hours,after suffering dreadful convulsions. After
death the body of the child swelled considerably, and as
two other children in the family were attacked with similar
symptoms, the anapicious of the medical gentleman called In
were ar,used. An exmoination was made of the body of
the deceased child, and a careful analysis of the contents of
the stomach, kc. showed that a very powerful poison hod
been administered, or taken in sufficient quantity to came
death. The other children attacked are recovering, and
nothing has yet been elicited in explanation of the affair.
Some sweetmeats which the children had in their possession
have been examined, but nothing of a deadly nature an be
detected in them.

CH A RCM Olr MD4CONDITT AGAINia A SHIP-
MAMTLIL - At a recent meeting of the LOOlll Marius Board
of the fort of London, an moutry Ives instituted into
charges preferred against Captiun'Ve aliam Hies, Imo ...Mr
of the Lord Byron (s.), by r. Stefano' Xemet, of the Greek
and Oriental Kam Navigation Company. Mr. H. Green
prodded, and Mr. Ingham was the magistrate in *Steed.
once. The iareetiimtien lasted eons* time, and army wit-
posses were eleMitall. The board, having ocesolted, re-
solved that Captain King was hakjtaaH. nadir the wen.
ewe of Input from Constantinople to 'revamp, and &aim
part of the time at Taganrog, and aloe from Taganrog
beck again to Malta, but the board are of opinion that
be was not ao far drunk as to in, ompeteut to
discharge his duty. The board recommend that be
he severely reprimambel. The Board of Trade have inti•
mated to the Local Marine Board that as they had repe-
al aided Captain King so eeverelv, they would return Lim
his certificate. —Shippioy Gautte.

WIWI= AmvSSAILTIS IN CANADA. —The holiday
snow here Ms brought with it .sly its u.ual ogreitabie
There is JIM the fewer quantity of mow
fa:re=aatia'aineaseaents, chief mew which snowshoe*
is lAN:plate as • mimeo swam the boys, great Wks-
Moe paid to the rigor/ awi the shape of the shwa.
'Mariend of the mason a grand rase takes pines,
wises the postal or some meat& distributes the pm's*.
The skating rink at Montreal is a great attractioe, and is
well euppoeted awl attended this year. It is npler, ewer, to
prevent the meow from eroding the ien antlis open we
usul tea in the evening, belag brilliantly lighted with we
after dark. This is decidedly the most fashioesble sport of
tlsii day, many ladies bang subsaibers. The orthodox drew
is short: and gathered up in limps to ho ii•it of the way,
Turkish treesere couspMtiug the sqiiikment. It is ex-
tremely grateful, sad you could acarcely tmurioe a prettier
sight them the rink prosesta by ;Dairen". thi certain nights
the band et the Royal Cimedisa Rlfles attend*, whoa the
better skaters take partners sod ;glide Cotoug'. the i=l
• quadrille. AttacMid to the reel are comfortable
rooms. —asasches X, ea.

INAFFIC Rer; RNA. —The traffic return% of mil-
ways in the railed Kingdom for th: wok radial this
12th of January amounted to 445,9110,., and for the oar.
resprooling week of last year to 4431,0501.. elbowing a de.
nesse of 2.1 W. The irroso revirits of the eight maws)*
having their termini in the sno.nntod to
1111,712/. and for the corerwmarling week of 11460 to
127,2754. showing a decrease of 5,5441. The decrease
on the E&OOITII Countess Railway .ranted to VOW.;
ow the (hest Northers to elat. nn the Crest Wasters
so MM.; cm the Ueda, at.a.n 1161. ;es the
Lemke and Broth Western to MO'. ; and on the itosUt
Iteetera to 1. ; total. 5,72 V. itlt fart this must be
dadndad 13W., the feeresee a the London and North_
Waders, End 21/. on the Leaden, Rtightosi, and South
Omsk kering the dormans a. rhovo. Vaw. The vs.
omits on the other lines In the Paited um:nutted
to W.lltdf., and for the mmtwirmding week of lest yes: to
11111,224/., showing an incres.e
.of 3,4111., which, do.
dieted from the decrease co too metropolitan lines,
brows the Mid dsereme c,..m•red with the
eanwpaseling wait al IND.
CITIPTAL PALM% ...111e Shadow Pantmninie and
Chrietaise Revak dose tray (liatuidarh—tier StAILLIIN;
Dar, DC OAT. .1 AN. 14. —Athat642,o oP Pawn rnt, 1. 742 ;
ditte by moms tickets, 1.e... mattes,