The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1850.

Raw iintelltgence.

(DAMES' COURT.—YurzaDAT.
Eau ILL Savomuutv ?orris. _

WOODMAN AMD ANC/TERI ;P:i;;;L.III.--BILL

Mb was aa oaths to reorWeiti.eanotia t of a bell of m-
auve aesspasd tie dareadast.
Mr. MOO appeaby red for tits platatilf. aad Mt. Mararaman
ler die dakedast.

Th• SAM& wen Messrs. Woodman and Banbridge,
whaleaM amt==s I. Tower-street, and the bill in gumbos
=id Mods la the ordiaary course of balsam, It
sahmad to they by a coustry othstomee famed Lowe.
Th• t, it appeased, was a dancing master at lye.'
wish, and la was ia $i batik of snaking professional toys,
aye*, plates he Adam* being Balkier, Essex. Whilst
wileatimid than be tap at the Whits Mart but and it seasetiasa
that he was indebted to this landlord, aat only for
bet for nosey Ist. In January last Us*
1 dallankat as take up a bill then nearly doe, and he
applied to Mr. Durant, the landlord, for • loth of 71. to
mg& MK to do so. Mr. Detract advanced that ma
Is Ohs iishisdaat, who give as irecartty the bill
sew wed epos, payable at dx =oaths. The defendant so-
'opted the bill la blank, being aware that Mr. Darant's sass
was sot bowled is it as the drawee, Mr. Datum declining
is appear as the drawer, is OM'S to avoid becoming liable as
such to any future holder. As acgsaintanca of Mr. Durant*
who had had many pecuniary traasaatioss with hiss, militia
to Ida fora temporary loan, and sot betas provided with
cash. Mr. Durant gars bin the bill, and told bias to do what'
he weld with it, it he thought it worth anything. This
person, Lowe, paid the bill to the plaintiffs, who now sued
the artosptor. The defendant merely denied ale acceptance.
Mr. Detract provid the def.-whine" acceptance, and stated
that though the name of Lowe appeared in the bill as the
drawn, he (Durant) is reality was the drawer. Lowe's name
was inserted altar he ( Durant) handed the bill to hint.
Mr. Muammar' submitted that the action could not be
sastathad, oa this ground that Ditrant, and not Lowe, was
tits drawer ; that the defendant had never accepted any
bill of what Lowe was the drawer, and that the only au-
thorised drawer of the ball was Durant.

—TMlsarae---dt3scoodarywasoropinTio• that this would have
boss • automatist delirium u between drawer sad acceptor,
bat immaterial es between indorses and acceptor.
Verdict for th• plabniff.
Tits Bowman Amtcasta LIP. Asacasacs COMPANY a.

13►aaor.—laeua►rch Commintom.
The Wendel': wee an eunt of the company at Liverpool,
and this action was brought against him to recover 111, the
balance, less 11 12e. commission of moneys received by him
in that capacity
The case wu proved by the defendant's own letters, and
the jary toned for the plaintiffs.

WANDSWORTH COUNTY COURT--YEsTzaDAy.

SUCKS I. I". luzia, Era., and &Jury.
SKITS AID 011111111 T. LIND/ST.—Tem LAM Rico•

MOND SWAM.
Thus wee as action to reamer 161. Ile., the value of five
silver cape, prises M a regatta which took place on the 3rd
of September last, and which it was alleged for the plaintiffs
—the crew of the Confidenoo—had been wrongfully detained
by the defendant, an innkeeper at litcbmcnd, mut treuurer
on the oneasion. It was a four oared rem, and three crews
the Ctrdigan, Confidence, and Chichester. The
Cardigan and Confid. rem fouled, and got aground when half
a mile ahead of the Chichester, and the latter, although
called to, went is and claimed the prize. The umpire de-
cided that, as the Chichester bad tailed to obey the com-
mand, the Confidence, having been foremost of the other two,
wee entitled to the prize.
The judge supported the umpire, as having been excepted
by both parties; the jery disallowed his decision, and a ver-
dict for defendant mu taken by consent.

suasive velocity, which would be affooffery to astablia the
ems, and of which no proof had as yet been presented
se kis ?
M* Hawley said that he should be prepared upon * future
occasion to show that he bad driven st an iteasthorised rata
g 'pod, and had acted wholly contrary to the bylaws and
mutations of the company.
The defendant, who appeared to be greatly exalted, was
shout to enter upon en explanation of the circumstances, but
was advised by the magistrate to morn whatever be bad to
my, and inquired whether be had any stereos' in atteadance
who would become answerable for his of appears:toe ?
The defendant answered in the negative, m his friends all
resided at a distance, and that he was wholly unprepared
for such a result se the present inquiry.
In answer tea mustiest from the magistrate,
Mr. Hawley sold that the defendant had boon suspended
from the envies of the company; but as he bed always, he
believed, up to the present occurrence, conducted himself
with perfect steadiness and propriety, he felt himself
authorised, on Us part of the company, in consenting to
"wept his own reeennisaness foe his future appearms
Mr. Hameln maraud ; and the recognmasese having
been mordiogly taken, the whole of the parties quitted the
court.
CLESEEN WELL.
BINITOLINOIL—The second half of a 51. note from
C. H. 0. end a6l bask note from Lord 8., have been
received 'tot the peer box of this court.
• MARYLEBONE.
Basevouuton.--F. L. P. forwarded to the court, through
Coitus and Co., a 51. note for the poor-box.
MAILLBOBOUGH-STBEET.
A BRUTAL IiUsRILLN.—TAOWSaI LAMP, an Irishman,
was charged wilt stabbing another Irishman named
ll'Carthy, with a clasp knife.
The prisoner and a number of his countrymen went into
the Nog 's Head public-house, in Compton street, to have
some porter. A gnarled ensued, which ended is a fight. A
witless named Kingston saw the prisoner take the quart pots
from the table,ll.lthem with boiling water from the copper
is the tap-room, end throw the scalding contents over the
persons prksent. He uen drew from his pocket a clasp
knife and stabbed Kingston. Afterwards he sta bed another
man named M'Certhy, in the facts and body. /d'Carthy
was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where he was at present
lying. The other man's wounds were of a slighter
nature.
Mr. Birch, landlord of the Nag's Head, said be heard
quarrelling in the taproom, and he went into the place and
tumid the persona out. When he returned to the taproom
be hound the prisoner there with as ups knife in his hand.
Witham put him also eat of the house, but was not aware at
the time that he had stabbed any one.
Police cuistable Redman said the wounds of Macerthy
were three is number, and of a serious character.
The prisoner said be knew nothing about the matter. He
was reseeded until Friday.
ASSAULT ow TRZ POLICI.—Jerry Neck, Julia Mole,
Timothy Neale, and John Burley, were charged with have
lag violently assaulted police constable Wade.
The constable "aid he found a party of drunken Irish men
end women fiebtieg together in Oxford-greet. He inter.
tared to preserve the peace, upon which they ceased their
results on each other and turned their vengeance upon
his. He was badly need, especially by Jerry Neale. The
defendants were none of them caber. Jerry Neale fined 201.,
alone month's imprisonment; the other three 6e., or seven

dep.
&TILL THE 111.1811.-11'sGinn Ahorn, an Irish labourer,
was, charged with having kic:_ed out the eye of James
Fleming.
The complainant mid the prisoner, who bad been drink-
ing, began to be ray gearrelsome in Cambridge-court, end
offered to fight with any body end *very body. Coto-
plideant got him into the house where be lodged, and
:he prisoner walked up two or three stairs, and this,
turning suddenly round, aimed a dreadful kick at his lace,
which split his nose and drove the eye completely from the
socket. Complainant screamed with oval, tied the de.
tendant was amend. Compleinant was taken to Middlesex
Hospital, with his eye hanging on his cheek. His wounds
were °reseed, and he wu informed he would most likely
never recover the sight of that eye.
The prisoner said he wee drunk, otherwise he should not
have injured a man who was doing good to him.
Remanded tall Fridai .
LAMBETH.
ButIVOLINOL—Mr.Norton re ceived,through the bank ing-
house of Mears. Coatis and Co., from F.L.P., a 61. bank
note; from Moors. Hoara, for Lord 8., a 51, note ; the
remaining halt of a 61. note from B 11.0. ; and a sovereign,
through the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, loom Mr. William
Wells, for the pwr boo—all of whisk he requested our
reporter to acknowledge.
THAMES.

MURDEROUS MID DASTARDLY ASSAULT.—Georg' Hunt,
a cabdriver, barge No. 8,979, was charged with committing
a sayspre assault on Thomas Whittaker, a police-countable,
No. lfia H, who appeared to have been terribly punished and
was in a week state from lees of blood.
It appeared that at 2o'clock yesterday morning, the atten-
dee of the constable was called to the prisoner, who was
seated on the b.:: of his cab, which was fall of people inside
and out. The cabman was inaliag • great disturbance,
and the constable ordered him to drive away, which he did,
at • most lotions rate from Olouenter-street, Com•
marcial•rcad, to Plummer's-row, Whftechapel, when
the cab was upset and the hone fell. The prisoner
was then Mood to be very much inebriated,
sad be was flogging his horse unmercifully. Whit.
taker interposed and told the driver he we. not fit to
have charge of a horse and cab. His remonstrances were
received with a good deal of foul longings, and Whittaker
was at last under the necessity of trineg the prisoner into
custody, and he had no image done so than he wu throws
down under the horse's feat, and the prisomr trampled upon
him. The pollinates on »covering his legs was knocked
down again and his hat knocked off. After • fierce
struggle he secured the prisoner, who walksd • very
I short distance very quietly, and than made • furious
attack upon the constable, whom he held by the
hair of the head wi h one hand, while he
pummelled his mmercifuAy with his fist, and then threw
him with great violence upon the ground. The policeman
struggled with the fellow oa the ground, and when he got
up, was kicked 'host the tags and body ia • meet savage
He managed, however, to -- with the pet-

three peen old. He had promised to mare her. He had
make would have hie ge on her brother on the Wed.
siasga7
";previous to the Pre.
Airra. Wood proved that he sew the prisoner write, and
the three:ening letter produced as sent to Mr. Christopher
Rae, was h: his handwriting.
The letter wu produce] by Inspector Coleman, but the
aoseama bikes siready been made public.
The prisoner wee thus formally committed, but will be
brosght pp on molegay for theidepoeitatme to be cemplued.