The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-30 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Sittings in lianoo.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron, end
Barons Channel and Pigott.
PuimiezNrs.
This morning the court gave judgment for the defers.
dents in the owe of the Brazilian and Portuguese Bank
v. the British American Bank Corporation (Limited),
which raiaed a question concerning the right to certain
Lille of lading.
In the case of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
v. Pear on and others. appellants, involving a question am
to the stamp duty, payable upon an indenture of lease of
certain coal mines in Yr.:kid:tire, their lordships pro-
nounced judgment in favour of the appellants and against
the determination of the commissioners.

BUKRUP AND ANOTHE!:.
Mr. Prentice, Q.C., on the part of the plaintiff, the
Rev. Henry Lloyd. the perpetual curate of the district
church of St. Mark's, Kennington, who brought this action
to recover 275/. from the defendants, the churchwardens
of that church, being the amount he claimed to be due to
him for two quarters' stipend, moved to set aside the ver-
dict, which had been formally entered for the de-
fendant', and to enter a verdict for the plaintiff
for the amount claimed. The case came on for trial
h,fo: c Mr. Baron Pigott, a few days ago, in the
Exchequer Chamber, when the whole matter was referred
to this court. the ouly question being purely one of law.
The litigation appeared to have arisen out of differences
between the plaintiff and some of his parishioners under
the ('butch Buildings Acts. The minister's stipend was'
payable out of the pew rents received within the year. and
one of the •iiiestious was as to the period when the year
commenced. Another question was whether the defend-
ants were liable for the money received by their prede-
Nabors in office.
The court granted a rule intimating that it should be
drawn up so as to raise all the points of law in the case,
and that it should come on for argument with the plain-
tiff's demur ter to one of the pleas..
Kale nisi accordingly.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
MORPHEIT T. MORPHETI,

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Sei jeaut Parry, Dr. Tristram, and Mr. Lush f.,r the
po.titioner ; Mr. Coleridge, Q.O , Dr. Spinks, Q.C., end
Mr. St►veley Hill, Q.C., for the respondent.
On the 9th of June the petitumer Frederick Wood
Morphett, a clerk in the Bankruptcy Court, married
Fanny Partridge Patteson, a niece of the late eminent
judge. He now sued for the restitution of his conjugal
rights ; but the respondent, pleading in reply charges
of cruelty and adultery, prayed for a judicial separation.
The parties lived together till the beginning of the Sep-
' tember after their marriage. They had frequent quarrels of
a somewhat wore silly character than usual ; but the case
re illy turned on the question whether a serious illness from
which the respondent had suffered was or was nut the re-
sult of her husband's misconduct. The details were, how-
ever, utterly unlit for publication ; and the trial was not
concluded when we went to press.

POLICE COURTS.--(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-ROUSE.
DARING STRRET RUBBERY.

This morning, before the Lord Mayor, Thohia., Ward-
re,e, a young man wearing a suit of black clothe.:, waa
charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, value 15/.
The prosecutor. Mr. Thomas Berens, a director of the
Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Office, Lombard-street,
was walking from London-bridge to the Cannon-street
Hotel shortly after 11 o'clock last night, and as
he was passing the steps leading down to Thames-street,
the prisoner made a rush at him, and stole his watch and
chain. The prisoner then ran down the Mein, followed by
the plc.: miter crying "Stop thief,"and at the top of Miles-
lane, he was arrested by a young man named Spiers. On
being given into custody he stated that he had nothing to
do with the robbery, and that he was running after
the thief, but it was stated there was no one in
advance of hi,E, and the watch was picked up shortly after-
wards on the spot where he was arrested.
The prisoner was remanded for further inquiries, as it is
believed that he has been previously convicted.

CLERKENW ELL.
A COWARDLY FELLOW

~,• Lad, of et, Hope-terrace, Islington, was
charged before Mr. Barker with unlawfully assaulting
and beating Jane Osborne, on the 21st of May last.
The complainant, a respectable-looking young woman,
had kept company with the defendant for about three
yearn, but at Christmas last he told her when in a drunken
state that he did not wish to speak to her any more. She
had not walked out with him since, and that had made
him Jealous. On the day in question as she
was speaking to some young girls, 'Elie de-
fendant went up to her and struck her a violent blow in
the face, saying. " I will tell you what that is for when I
gut you by yourself." He ran off to prevent being locked
up, and a short time afterwards she again saw him, when
be went up to her and again struck her. Sho had a black
eye for sou :r da).i Afterwards, and her face was very much
bruised.

The magistrate characterised the defendant as " a
cowardly ill-conditioned fellow," and tined him 20s. ; or,
in dehailt, 11 days' imprisonment.

bIAItLBOROVOIi-STREET.

AbsAl I T A POI ICEMAN BY A COMMERC !AL TRAVELLER.
Norm, Tipple, a commercial traveller, of No. '2O, High
Holborn, was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk
awl assaulting Police-constable Richard Dowdeswell,
Iro. _ . . . . .

The constable said that about 10 o'clock the previous
night he was in the Haymarket where he found the
prisoner. who was drunk, lying on his back. He
picked the prisoner up, and be walked across the road
I.nd got into Hansom cab, and on the cabman Raking
where he wanted to go to, he replied "To —." The
constable then looked into the cab, upon which the
prisoner struck him a violent blow on the nose, and on
taking him into c.ustody, and on the way to the station,
he was viry violent.
The pi ismer :aid that after being roughly handled by
the eonstuble he got into a cab. when the constable struck
him bee sue he would not get out of the cab. He
had lost his hat, had his coat torn, been struck, and locked
up.
The c•mstable said the prisoner hadnohat with Lim.
Mr. ICI.ox said he would give the prisoner the option
of paying a fine. but he would have to pay the full fi ue—
namely, 7.1. ; or a month.

It i, said that M. Vieuxtemra wi!l cane tk. Lon-
don before the close of the season.

ClieruLini's Med.'" is to be performed tc-night al
Drury .lane Theatre.

Yesterday a frightful calamity occurred at Bir-
n.ingbam. Three hundred gross of fog signals exploded in
munufactoiy at that town, causing the death of two
yourg gills who were employed on the premises, and so
-zverely injuring four others that they continue in a dui-
gerour state. _

- THE CO Mf of NOOFR.—l'ptearfls of 6,000 persons
c ere summoned to appear at the Hackney Town-hall, yes-
terday. for nonpayment of rates. At 10 o'clock Mr.
Butler. M.P., Mr. John Morley, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Alex.
'miler, and Mr. Charles Reed were is attindance, and the
whole day was spent in adjudicating the enamor a body of
icapectaffle poor people who are suffering under the opera-
tion of the ratepaying clauses of the new Reform Bill.
Such a scene of affliction and trouble was never before wit-
nessed in the parish of Hackney. In many cases the land-
lords have raised the rents.

It is 'aid that there are seven thousand defaulters
00 the poor .rates in Ltrubeth as a first imAshikent of the
troubles to arise from the abolition of compounding. The
other large SAutli London parishes in which compounding
f.•r small houses existed arc much in the same ease.—
•Ili Pecan