The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

owing@ in Bence—Before Lord Campbell and Justice,
Coleridge, Br* and Crompton.)
Tim 41:111:( V. THE MAYOR AHD ASSUMES OF /WWI:STEIL

JUDGMENT.

This twee was argued on Saturday last, and judgment re-
Ar.d. A mandamus had been directed to the mayor end
=Maws of Rochester to hold a court for the revision
at the beas roll for the parish of Strood in that town.
A cowl bad been regularly held within the time verified by
she Municipal Reform Act fur that purpose ; but the mayor
geeteseeseurs had refused to revioe the list, on the ground that
It had only been ailed to the door of the town-hall for one
ito instead of seven, OA required by the stsfute.
The return made by the mayor to the man-
ammo was, that ho woo not mayor at tho time
She revision court wee held, and that be bad no power
A bold a court for the revision of the hats submitted to the
ems presided over by the former mayor, but that be woe
voting to hold one if ho could legally do so, It was 'Jae
pitanded by the counsel on the port of the mayor, that
the statutablis time for holding the rourt had gone by, and
that the decision of the first court woe final.
Lord Campbell, in now delivering judgment, went through
the various authorities which had been cited in the cane, and
sold the court was of opinion that the return of the mayor
was no answer to the mandamus , and that EN the mandamus
had been applied for within a reasonable time, it properly
rise, and ought to have been obeyed. Judgment would
therefore be fur the crown.
Judgment for the crown accordingly.
In a second cam relating to the pariah of St. Nicholas, at
Mocheater, in which the AMC questions arose, the court also
gave judgment for the crown. The only difference as re-
the facts was that the mayor and asseasors had re-
=led to entertain ninety-nine notices of objection, on the
ground that they had not been delivered to the town clerk
ly, but simply left at bin home. The court thought
Crapatonal service wee not necessary.
Lord Campbell said it would he unnoccasary to deliver
litc:tigin the other cams relating to different parishes' in
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ARCHES COURT.
(Before Sir John Dodson.)
CROSSE V. DYNELLY.—.ENTENCE.
This was a complaint brought by Mr. Crowe, a proctor of
the cowl, against Mr. Dyneley, one of the deputy-regis-
trars, accusoig him of being "overbearing and insolent in
Lis demeanour, and inconaistent and unreasonable in his
requirements, as well to him prreonally as to eucli
tioners generally as were compelled to have rooounie top him."
The facts of the cam were very fully reported in the Er-press
of the 6th inst.
Sir John Dodson now delivered judgment. Ife considered
that Mr. Dyneley's conduct was deserving of very serious
reprehermion. There' wan not the slightest foundation for
the grave charges holed brought against Mr. Crosse, and
got spinet Mr. Crosse only, but against Mr. Decimue Dyke,
the Queen's proctor, and other proctors of the court. It
mss quite clear that the registry and proctorial
Matters were, as he said, in a " sad state." Many
had sworn that when they had bedtime to transact
McW wegere in the habit of inquiring who was the registrar
are the week; and if it was Mr. Dyneley they delayed their
bodisees until another registrar took hisOam. That was every
Calamitous state of things. No doubtagreyantat of the difficulty
woes front an anxious desire on Mr. D s part:to do his
ditty, to be particularly accurate end so ; but that feel-
kg, praiseworthy as it was, seemed to hare been carried to
an excise The court could nut but accede to Mr. Crowe's
prayer—it could not but censure Mr. Dyneley, and admonish
him to abstain from such conduct in future. Ile thought it
ought likewise to admonish Mr. Crease to abstain from such
language in future as that he had used to Mr. Dyneley.
With regard to the application to condemn Mr. Dyneley
In the costs, he could scarcely accede to that request.
In the fleet place, the cods could not be very important ;
and Mr. Crow had himself made the [trot attack. Ito (Sir
J. Dodien) should certainly admonish Mr. Dyneley to be
more guarded in his conduct; and if it was repeated, bn
should be under the neoessity of taking more stringent
measures.
Mt. Crosse moved that, so Mr. Dyneley sew absent, a mo-
llifier% should issue, directing him to be Ware guarded in his
conduct in future.
The Court suppeed that would hardly be necessary ; but
If Mr. Crosse Melded upon it a monition must ingUe.
Mr. Crosse said he felt compelled to Meld on the monition.
The Court—lf you wish it you mast have it, but it does
not show a good spirit.
Mr. Crosse said he had been persecuted and must pr-
emiere.
The monition was ordered accordingly.

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PAThL ACCIDENT IN HION-STEEET, ST. IIILEs.N.
William Lee a van-driver, in the service of Mauro Ford
and Co., of Alderogate-street, wan brought before Mr. Jar-
dine, charged with eauaing the death of a child named Anne
Reynolds, by driving over her with his van.
Mr. Checkley, inspector of the E divieion, laid that at
about 11 d'eWt yeeterday morning the child was run over
in High-street, 14. ma., and died In the evening. As some
of the persons who emir the occurrence stated that the pri-
soner wee driving fast, ha (Mr. Checkley) thought it his
duty to bring him here and bare the ere investigated.
Kdmund Chwcher, a porter in the service of R (ream-
man in New Oxford-street, deposed—l was paraing up High-
street, between 10 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning,when
I saw a child of about seven or eight yeas of age, knocked
down by the fore-horses of a van. The van was stopped
Immediately, and the child au taken up by another pawn
end carried into a ehop. When I maw that the child was
being attended to I went away, as I had my duty to perform
for my master.
John Dixon. 2, Hampshire Hog-yard—l wee standing at
the corner of the yard, and saw four vans coming down the
street, near the corner of the church. The paving is slanted
and the stones are very greasy. The child must have run
of the pavement. I row it between the horses legs. The
prisoner • van was the third. The fret vane were going
about seven or eight miles an hour, and the prisoner we.
delving at about the same rate.
The primmer—Did you not soy yesterday that the two
before me were going Let, but that I was going eta steadier
Winters—No, I said you were going about the same pare.
Ellen Stanley, a little girl of fourteen, said—l live at 14
'White Hut-street. I was going along High-street end I
maw the little girl. She called me something, end the
thought, perhaps, I was going to bit her, so she ran away.
The bone knocked her down and kicked her backward*, and
then the van went over her. She could not save herself, and
nobody could ewe her.
Edwin Reynolds, the child's father, said that he knew
nothing of the occuerenee. The child had been tent on •
message to the butcher'e.
Mr. Eustace J. Carver, urgent at Middlesex Ileepital,
said that the child was brought there yesterday about noon.
She had a lacerated wound on each foot, and was very much
bruised on the back. She died from the shock and general
injuries. She gradually sank from the time she was
brought in. Be should think the kidneys were injured.
The driver of the van which followed the prisoner stated
that he saw the child knocked down by the fore-wheel of the
wan. She rolled over and the bind-wheel passed over her
feet. He did not we her between the hones lege. In
his opinion the van was not going at an improper rate. It
was loaded with new potatoes. Witness was driving one of
the Great Northern Railway Company's vane.
Edward Pollock, one of the company'. porters, was with
the last witness, whom he corroborated.
The prisoner mid he was not driving at mom than four
Miles an hour. The child could not have got between the
horses' legs, or he should have eeen her, and then he could
have stopped the horses in time to rave her.
Mr. Jardine—One man speaks of seven or eight mike AD
hour, which would be • very improper pace in each a place.
However, there must be a coroner a ingueitiou, and it would
be wrong for me to expect.* en opinion in the meantime.
'Ton must be remanded till after the inquest ; boll do not
Want to send you to gaol, if you am get a respectable (Penton
to be bail for you.
A gentleman from MOWS. Ford's offered himself ao nicety,
end stated that of all the men in their service the prisoner
eras the most steady and careful.
The bail win accepted, and the prisoner, after entering into
trecognieances, was set at liberty.

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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The Memorial de „1",
r Ather relate. a most melancholy affair .—The Count and T
Countess de Bourbon-Chalus, of Moulins, both young, left „,
that city four mornings ayo, accompanied by a friend, to visit
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the coal-pii of Montet, at a distance of eight lenience. On b
arriving at the village they gaily breakfasted, and then went t,
to the pits, where they were joined by some other persona. t
As they were standing near the orifice of one of the pits. a
machine noire was heard, and the windlass suddenly broke j
down. Whether in its fall any portion of it struck the countess, t
or whether, frightened by the noise, rho unconsciously ,
darted forward, is not known; but, dreadful to relate, elm
fell into the pit I Her husband and the manager of the
establishment immediately lot themselves down by means of a
rope, and found the lady lying with her limbs broken, and in
a frightful state. She was still alive, and was raised to the
mouth an rapidly as passable; but It was seen that she could
tot possibly recover, and a priori WAS summoned, who
administered to her the Lust consolations of religion. tier
husband, who wsa almost distracted, entreated her to say if
she recognised him, and she faintly answered " Yee," after
which she expired.
ELECTION Or A MEMBER OP THE. METROPOLITAN
BOARD or W 0 RI 14....-YlNlterdltY, at the ordinary weekly
Meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras, [mash Wilkinson,
o[PS:era-park, Highgate, recently lotted out by the Nieto-
'militia Board, was re-elected without opposition to represent
the pars of St. Pancras.
ART TREASURES EXHIEITION,—The ad-
Missions on Wednesday were 1,379 by season ti.ket ; and
6,992 by one abating payment ; total, 7,271. Of thin nu._
Ofir 2,294 arrived by railway.

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