The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments tO TheE.,;.---* Bengal Railway
Company Bill and the Mode Railway Company Bat were
considered and agreed to.
Baroness Windsor's Estate Bill and the Duke of Bridge.
water's Estate Bill were read a third lime rod passed.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

Mr. HADFIELD wiehod to ark the Secretary of Stale for
the Home Department whether the government intend to
bring in • bill neat gelation of parliament to abolish impti-
manumit for debts cm:drat:tad without fraud?

emiderstion,
but he could cake no prowise.

BISHOP HINDS.
Mr. GRIFFITH gars nada, that on Friday he should
ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether now that Bi+hop
Blondlold'a pension had fallen in ho was disposed to grant a
pension to Dr. Hinds, late Bishop of Norwich.
LORD-LIEUTENANCY 0 IRELAND.

Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that lor v next feSPiOn he
should call attention again to the subj.ct of the Lord-Lieu-
tenancy of Ireland, and propo.e a plan of his own for the
government of Ireland, which in ote word, would be by the
establishment of another Secretary of State. He should
elm call attention to the subject of the relations between
this country snd the Hudson's Pay Company.
BALE OF' OBSCENE BOOKS PREVENTION BILL.
The house went into committee on ibis bill.
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On Clime 1.
Mr. ROEBUCK demanded some explanation as to the
course to be taken with regard to this bill. He could not
allow it to proceed farther, soiree he received a tonsure that
further guards would be taken against the provisions of the
MI being abused, such es that there should Le an overt act
sworn to before a search warrant could issue.
Sir E. PERRY, who Lad charge of the bill, said be
bad already adopted the suggestion that the jurisdiction
under this bill should bs vetted in two justices instead of
one, acid ha was quite ready to swot to the other
two suggestions—namaly, that an act of sale abould
be sworn to before the WOO of a warrant, and that them
should bo en appeal to quarter scoeions from the do idon al
the one or two magistrates who might act in the first
in-
stance. At the proper time lie should bring up clauses for
carrying out these two sugrations.
Mr. AYRTON proposed to insert an amendment in lies
14 of clause 1, with the view of providing that the offensive
prints should be exhibited for gain to justify the issue of a
warrant.
Mr. ROEBUCK, to supporting the amendment, adverted
to a letter of Lord Brougham, referring to the petition
of four poor men, presented to the Houma; of Lords by Lard
Lyndhurst, wherein it was stated that they had berm fined
Queen Elizabeth's shilling, by oertain justices, for non-attend-
ance at church. They had been Lruught before the justices
on a charge of poaching, but that charge failing, the julaices
interrogated them se to their religious duties, and finding
that they had not been to church on the previous Sunday,
lined them accordingly. Ile mentioned this letter in order to
show that a mon might be brought up under one act and
convicted on another. Now if the greatest precautions Vert
not taken this bill might be perverted in the same way.
After a few words from Sir G. GREY, who did not object
to the spirit of the amendment, the clause was altered as pro-
poeed. Clause ono wasagreed to after the insertion of coma
other amendments, as wero also the other two clauses of the

Mr. JOSEPII LOCKE moved to insert the following
clause, viz.:—" That any person aggrieved by any set or de-
termination of any magistrate or justice,' of the peace out et
scseione, in or concerning the execution of this act, hay ap-
peal to the next General or Quarter Sessions fur tl.e county,
riding, division, city, borough, or place in and for a suds
magistrate or jum ices slaall have so acted, giving to the mgs-
tnste or juetices of the ponce whose act or determination sha,l
be appealed against, notice in writing of ouch appeal, and at
the grounds thereof, within seven days after such art or dr
termination, and before the next general or quarter ,erosion,
and entering within inch seven day. into a recognisance,
with pufficieat surety, before a justice of the peace for the
county or place in which such art or determination shall
have taken place personally to appear and prosecute such
appeal, and to abide the order of, and pay such costs
se shell be awarded by the justices at such quarter
sessions, or any adjournment thereof, and the court et
such general or quarter sessions shall hear and determine
the matter of such appeal, and than make such order therein
as 'hall to the said court seem meet; and such covq, upon
hearing and finally determining such appeal, Mall and may,
&wording to their discretion, award such costs to the party
appealing or appealed against as they shall think proper.
And if curb appeal be dismiered or decided spina, the
appellant may order the articles seized to be forthwith
destptyeti."

Thor clause was agreed to, and ordered to be added to the
bill.
The house then rearmed, and the till was reported with
amendments. The bill to be reprinted.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.
The committee un this bill was then resumed, for the pur.
pose of adding new clanam.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought up a clause he
lieu of clause 8, providing for the constitution of the court
to bo established under the bill.
The clause. Wad added to the till, all discussion upon It
beteg postponed until bringing up the report.
A clause woo also brought up, providing for the constitu-
tion and machinery of local courts in connection with the
cowrie of quarter 5e6601111 and MAIM.
A third clause, proposed by the ATTORNEY-GtNERAL
end accepted with greet =dimity by the committee,
povides t et the courts to be established under the bill sbd
have power to try actions for damages In cases off
adultery irrespective of divorce, the jury to award
damages and to decide iu what manner the
money shall be applied, whether it shall go to the husband
or bo invested for the benefit of the children, if any,
of the marriage. In the course of a converse.
lion which ensued upon this clause, Mr. Bovill threw
out for the consideration of the Attorney-General •
suggestion, to the effect that a wife who sod
for a divorce in these courts on the ground
of adultery shoull also hove the right to claim damages
lom the lewd wa. Mr. hue Butt, and: Mr. Ayrtoa,
expressing their approval of the clause, explained that in the
course which they took loot night their only object WA
to were punishment for the adulterer. which this elute
fully provided for.
These clause, were added to the bill with several other..
and the house having resumed, the report was ordered to be
brought up to-morrow.
[Left sitting.)

The Paris Pays says that despatches have been
received in England from the Governor of the Cape of Goof
Hope, stating that in consequence of an expected outbreskef
the Kaffir% he cannot spare the two regiments for India
which have been asked for

Our Maria cotemporury, the Prase, in a memeig
of the late General Anson, state., with ell gravity, that Is
" August, 1811, he became the representative of the division
of Chiltern, (the fact being, that be then left parliament bJ
accepting the Chiltern Hundreds) and was at thw eame tile*
appointed to a high command in the East Indies."
DOWNING-STREET, ArGvsT 10.—The Queen his
been pleased to appoint the Rev. John Bowen, LL.D,, to
ordained and consecrated Bkhop of Sierra Leone, in therms
of the Right Roy. John Wills Weelo, deresstd. AVM'
16.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joteph Icing
Jardine, Erg., Charles St. Goorp Cleverly, Esq. (Surveys.
General), Henry Tudor DI{ViCP, Esq. (Chief Magistrate), asd
George Lyall, Esq.„ to be members of the Legislative Coned
of the colony of Hong Kong; also Michael Henry Osllysfe
Req., to be Attorner-Gezend for the colony of Natal
Augustus Frederick Gore, Esq., to be AMilstliat GooffnWat
Secretary for the colony of British Guiana; end Chubs
Wafters, to be Solicitor-General, and Jame* Brove
to be Surveyor-General, for the province of New 13r1RA
—Gazette. _ .

lirntrEffsl.l., Aucus-r 14.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint George Dingwall Fordyce, Esq., advocaat
to be Sheriff of the shire or altetilldont of Sutherland all
Caithness.—GareMe.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
or I ZELAND.—The annual exhibition and meetings of tali
society commenced at Waterford on Monday. There are tir
tween nu and seven hundred exhibitors, besides those tad
send machine. and implements. The trial of pion& la
other implements has excited notch interest. The DA
Lieutenant, who will be the guest of the Marquis of Wear-
ford. is :Feted to be present at the Litter part of the per
: ocedings.
THE AMERICAN MERCHANT SERVICE.—Om
day evening last a sailor woe landed at Restage bye Ea
gate Rating lugger, which had picked him up about age
miles at sea, pot after he sprung from a picket ship stead(
up the Channel. The account he gave of the came of OW
deserting the packot is an eatranc.tinary ono. Ue laid
name was James Freeland, and that he was a native d Lar
donder7, Ireland. When taken before the Mayor of Had*
at the town-hall on the foll.iwing morning, he made a dal'
anent, to the effect that he had been drugged at the boo"(
house in New York, and in that state bad been take* ea
hoard a packet ship laden with oil-cake, and bound for Lae
don. Every day be and other men on board were beaten bf
the captain and mate, and at last, when about nine to
off Hastings, he jumped into the wale to escape further
ill-treatment. When taken by the lugger he hefted
prayed that they would not take Lim back to the ship, in.
mid he would rather be drowned than go en lased.Si
complained of his back, and said he bad been knocked abed
with a haadapike. The crew took him into the cabinet**
boat, when be could scarcely move. Ono of them examined
his bash,and it implored very much discoloured, as if belld
neared a severe blow. He had aloe a mark near h 4 hit.
eye. They then landed him at Hastings. The mayor, lair
making some further inquiet'', ordered Impactor Wasialar
to provide the unfortunate man with what refreshments
required, and forward biro to London, that he might Immo
opportunity of lodging his complaint at the City Petits'
moot, his worship kindly undertaking to pay whale's
prunes were incurred in doing the game.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
THIS DAY.

Ilaginrki
after du: n

(before Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Crowder.)
yoeph allies, 42, and Thomas Cuglint 40, were indicted
lb, uttering a forged U. Bank of Englandnote.
Mr. Hillard I'M Mr. Bayly conducted the prosecution on
behalf of the Bank of England. The prisoners were de-
fied by Mr. ROA= and Mr. Cooper.
The offence imputed to the prisoners was clearly este!).
nut them ty the evidence, and they appeared
ins" 6en carryins on a wholesale system of utter-
epg forged notes M I directions. It appeared that on
ebe ''th of June the prisonent went to the shop of a Mr.
le.eball, tobacconist, in High-street, Islington, and asked
br a Wind of cheroots, the pries of which was 9a., and they
d for them with a forged 51. note, and received
chew. The prinonets had known Mr. Marshall for
eighteen months and had had several dealings with him prior
ec, the traneaction, and they represented that they had a
brge contract to supply meat at Ablerahott, and id that if
ta,ese clterootewere good they should be able to get himm a large
order for cheroot' for the camp. It was proved that on a lum-
ber of other made= in the same month the prisoners got rid
at other forged note', and it appeared that in every case
they went to parties who knew them, and to whom they
owed email debts, and succeeded to getttng them changed in
&meet every instance, and upon each occasion they gave a
t &rent name end address. The whale of the notes were
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THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Ms Ha, en eosentrictlooking old men, was brought
dors the Lord Mayor, upon remand, charged with having
:tempted to commit suicide, by tying a rape tightly round
u. neck, and then endeavouring to jump into the river.
The officer who had charge of the care, produced • certift-
de repining the prisoner's state of
tomind, from the surgeon
INeergate gaol, which was handed the Lord Meyer. who
hi reading it ordered the prisoner to be taken to the Union
dither with the certificate.
lama Batchelor was brought up upon remand charged
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Irappeared from the evidence adduced at the former
examination that the prisoner, who was a potent in the
navies of a publics, was in the habit of supp ying the men
at work on Brewer's-quay wits beer, and that he was stepped
be g policeman, in the Mletories, with the 121bs. of butter in
ble cast pocket. The officer stated te-day that the butter
tend not be identified.
The prisoner still declared that he had purchased the but-
hr of • man for 6s.
The Lord Mayor—How large is the pocket of the coat in
which the butter was found
Officer—lt extends the whole way round the hack. It
goes from ekirt to sk et. It is all one pocket, my lord.
The Lord Mayor-1 never before heard of such a pocket
ae that.
Prisoner—l had it made large for the purpose of carrying
e Inge quantity of bread and cheese in it, for the conanmp-
hoe of the men employed on the quay.
The Lord Mayor—As the butter was not identified, I
must dcharge you, butt recommend you to get rid of that
pocket as aeon as you can.
Discharged accordingly.
WORSHIP-STREET.
BARE INGRATITUDE.
Henry Burrows a hale labourer, of 22 years of age, was
charged with robbery.;
The proeecotor, an elderly man, named Reed, also a la-
bourer, living in Camden-gardens, Bethnal-green, said—l
knew this men's parents well, and have some knowledge of
himself. A few days since, on meeting hen, he complained
grievously of diatoms, arising from inability to procurework.
!pitied him, took him to my home, gave him 6d., and a
good meal, and he left. The following day he again saw me.
Re mid he had procured • job, and I gave him another 6d.
and meal, but on rettuning home at night I was suiprised to
hear from my little boy that the prisoner had been there for
my beat clothes, and under pretence of my having sent him
they were given into his bands. Oo searching I missed two
pairs of new trousers, three waistcoats, a pair of sheets,
stocking., and two sovereigns which were en the trousers
pocket.
Prosecutor's son, ten years of age, having confirmed the
fact of the possession by the accused.
Police-constable 105 H depend that from information he
apprehended the prisoner, who said, to his benefactor's face,
01 have got the things, but will not tell where they are.
Pu suffer the law, and when I come out of prison they will
be mine." On searching, the stockings were found en his
pockets, and he impudently observed, "Wouldn't you
, like
to have the other things; but I'll see you d—d first.'
The magistrate expressed his indignation at such base in-
gratitude as the prisoner himself admitted he had been
gatlty of, and fully committed him for trial at the Middlesex
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LAMBETH.
orators CARE OF FTABAIMO.
David Ready, a thickest young fellow of nineteen years of
age, was placed at the box before Mr. Elliott on a charge of
stabbing James Purcell with a sharp pointed knife, in the
tight eye, by which the poor man has totally lost the sight of
that organ.
The complainant, an apparently good-humoured and good-
tempered man, said that on the 10th of June last at about 8
o'clock in the 'venue, he resat a beer-house in ColdHarbour-
Igoe, and there met the prisoner. They came away from there
together, and bad not proceeded far when the prisoner kicked
khan' the ankle. He told him that if he did it again ho
should put hint on his back, and the peimmr having re-
peated the kick, he did put him on hisback. The pri-
stine, in getting up, said he ehould fight him as soon as he
got to the Windmill public-brume. His (witness's) reply
wee that he should be ashamed of himself to strike • boy
bb Ids. They peoeseded along until they appenched
seen rats in the pathway, and as they neared
them the primer rushed at him and stabbed him with
the Imile be then produced in the right eye, leaving the blade
emapietely wedged in the wound. He (witneas) was ee
enema with the three and suddenness of the blow that he
should have Inks had he not caught hold of one of the
Pane be had 'mentioned and supported himself. He drew
the hulk from the wound as soon as he was able, and though
some pantos who had winnowed the attack had endeavoured
to Nine the prisoner he effected his escape. Witness was
taken to Guy's Hospital, where he remained for five weeks
der the core of the medical officers of that institution.

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h, yes, sir; it is quite gone, and my eye ia m,
gas dosed. Siam I left the bital I have been in search snarl
el Ile psteneer; but did not sumM in finding him till this the
when I found him at work in Battersea-Gelds. iv, fa
ffillilDinfisir him, I said, "How (Mould
_you like it if I lone
kneelyour eye out r and he replie I, " a should not like fast
it at aY • I was drunk at the time I did it." I took him to 140,1
• camstads sad gave him in custody.
The pawner, who listened to the particulars of the
chirp slinace, was remanded to a future day.
SOUTHWARK. Rae
DPROLART AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. 15s.
Clerics Reathcr, a cod homer, was brought before Mr. Het
Bareharn for re.eumination, charged with being concerned Ore
with others not in custody, in breaking Into the counting- W
hoses of Messrs. Cory ant Sine, coal merchants, Commercial- Al'sl
Z.Ltirobsth, and stealing therefrom 701. in Bank of 19
notes and gold and adver, beeides several ahem in •
the Crystal Palms Company. He was also charged with
bang concerned in attempting to murder Henry Nowell, the
watchman. The latter person was *o cruelly ill-treated by
lks thieves, that he was unable to attend to give evidence'9
intllthis day. .01
Henry Nowell, the Eamon above described, was put In the I
witness. box, and appeared to be mill euffering from the of
Narita he had received. He said that be had been for many im
years watchmen to the promeutors, and had known the pri-
MDT as having worked for them casually some time ago. "•'
About one o'clock on the morning of the 26th of
Jess, witness was near the waterside on the wharf, it
when some man suddenly came behind him, and an,
seized him by the throat, nearly strangling him.
Another man at the same time put a cloth over his face, "
saturated with chloroform, which rendered him eenseleas to
immediately. He recollected nothing until about four o'clock,
when Ids senses were partially restored. lie was then in qt,
gent pate, and he thought he was dying. A thick cloth ke
was fastened over his tuoutb. His arms were tied
behind hint, and fixed with ropes to his legs,
so that he was unable to move or call out. PI
He lay in that half-sensible state until about five
o'clock, when one of the labourers tame in and released him.
He was then conveyed home and attended to by a medical
man, who directed him to go into the country, where he re-
mained until yesterday. Witness was still suffering severely„
and be was unable to attend to his business. He distinctly
saw three men about him when he was first attacked, but he
believed there were more of them.
Hr. Burcbam asked him whether he could identify the
Weimer se one of the men ?
He replied that he could not speak positively to him as he
Was so suddenly attacked.
William Hooper, foreman to Messrs. Cory and Son, said
that he saw the counting-house safe on the night of the 24th
Of June. On the following morning he received infonuation
that the watchman had been nearly murdered, and on pro-
ceeding to the wharf he found that the counting-honso had
beta entered and all the desks broken open and ransacked of
the contents. The thieves bad stoles upwards of 70/. in Bank
M England notes, gold, and silver, beeides several chains in
the Crystal Palace Goinpany. Wilma. knew the prisoner,
l• twin formerly worked as a casual labourer on the
alert
Slued eta. 86 L, said be Paw the prisoner and another
only let lfewa. C 2.11 wharf about two o'clock on rho
den 26th June. He mid be was waiting ter
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