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The plaintiff in this case brought an action against
the defendants to recover compensation in damages
for the loss of a dressing-case, which was missed at
the London terminus after the arrival of a railway
train, and was supposed to have been stolen by the
porter who took it out of the carriage in which the
plaintiff had travelled. The jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff, but a rule nisi was afterwards ob-
tained to enter a verdict for the defendants on several
points reserved from the trial. To-day cause was
shown against the rule, but we reserve our report, as
the arguments are not concluded.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 5.
(Sittings in Banco.)
At the sitting of the Court this morning, notice was
given that on Monday Mr. Baron Alderson would sit
in the Exchequer Chamber to hear motions, and this
Court would proceed at once with the new trial paper,
and that no rules should be enlarged without special
application to the Court. Practice motions engaged
the attention of their Lordships up to three o'clock,
when the new trial paper was taken, and one case was
part heard.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 5.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
IN RE JOHN NASH.
The bankrupt, who was described as of Rother-
hithe, Strood, and Duke-street, timber merchant, and
who was in partnership with a Mr. H. Gurney, came
up to pass his adjourned last examination.
Mr. Harwood appeared in support of the assignees,
and Mr. Hobhouse, of the Chancery bar, supported the
bankrupt.
Some considerable discussion ensued as to various
items of account, the more particularly as to the
amount to be divided between the partners (J. Nash
and H. Gurney), in the course of which it was said
that there would be sufficient to pay 20s. in the pound,
and leave a surplus to be divided between the partners.
In this case the official assignee, in accordance with
the rule lately adopted by Mr. Commissioner Fane,
prepared the bankrupt's balance-sheet on the first
examination, which, however, the latter repudiated,
and came before the Court upon the balance-sheet
prepared by himself.
His HONOUR considered :the accounts rendered to
be satisfactory, and the bankrupt was declared to
have passed his last examination.
Passed accordingly. The case lasted three hours.
There were a few meetings for audit of account,
before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, which passed
sub 'acidic..

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT, May 5.
Frederick Maynard and Philip Maynard, journey-
men butchers, were opposed by a Mrs. Broadbent for
the damages awarded in an action of false imprison-
ment.

The cases were before the Court on a former occa-
sion, and stood over to effect a settlement. The
insolvents managed a business in Adams-row, Hamp-
stead-road, for their mother. One Saturday Mrs.
Broadbent, the wife of a carpenter, went into the shop
to purchase some meat, and tendered a half crown in
payment, which was declared to be a bad one.
Mrs. Broadbent alleged that one of the insolvents
had changed the piece of money. She was loud in
her complaint, and was given in charge for passing
bad money, and locked up with low characters until
the following Monday morning, when the charge was
dismissed at Marylebone Police-court. An action
was brought for false imprisonment, and the damages
were 151., the costs 621. The insolvents were in
prison for the damages and costs.
Mr. COOKE now informed the Court that 10/. had
been offered, which was all they could muster toge-
ther, but Mrs. Broadbent required all the debt and
costs to be paid. The insolvents would take the judg-
ment of the Court.

Mr. Commissioner LAW said he had adjourned the
case for an arrangement, and he had extended the
discharge on sureties, but now the parties would go
to prison for six weeks unless the cases were settled
before that time.

The insolvents were remanded to June 19 for
judgment. They were taken to Whiteeross-street
Prison.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
RECEIVING MONEY :UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—
George Symonds appeared upon two summonses, the
one charging him with having demanded and re-
ceived from William Gillett the sum of 21. as a
remuneration for hiring and providing him to be
entered on board a merchant ship, the said George
Symonds not being a person requiring seamen, and
not being the owner, part owner, or person in charge
of the ship, nor the ship's husband of any ship re-
quiring seamen. The second summons charged the
defendant with having demanded 31. from Henry

LONDON,

Seal, a seaman, for similar service. The penalties
sought were 51. in each case.
One of the complainants was an apprentice, and
the other had never been to sea.
Mr. Petersdorff appeared to support the complaint,
and Mr. Huddlestone attended for the defendant.
The LORD MAYOR (with whom was Alderman
Gibbs) said that he and his brother magistrate
agreed in adjudicating on the subject. They con-
sidered the Bth and 9th of Victoria as a final statute,
without any incorporation clause with the 7th and
Bth Victoria, and, therefore, they referred alone to
the first-named Act, which used only the word " sea-
man." They did not consider an apprentice to be a
seaman, nor did they consider that a man who never
had been to sea could be denominated a seaman, and
upon these grounds they dismissed the summonses.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Richard Evans, of No. 17, Newman-street,
artist, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with having committed an assault on a gentleman
named John Prescott Knight, Secretary of the Royal
Academy.
Mr. Clarkson attended on behalf of the Royal
Academy, Mr. Bodkin for the defendant.
Mr. Clarkson said he had the honour to appear on
behalf of the Royal Academy, who had been insulted
in the person of their officer. It would be necessary
for him to remind the Court that at this period of
the year the council of the Academy were assembled
together to make selections from the works of art
sent in for exhibition. Amongst other artists
desirous of having their works exhibited was the de-
fendant, Mr. Evans, a powerful man, and capable, by
the exercise of his bodily strength, of inflicting per-
sonal injury upon another man. Mr. Evans's work
was not accepted by the society, and the usual printed
circular was sent to him. The defendant imme-
diately came to the institution, demanded to see
Mr. Knight, and, on seeing him, made use of violent
language.
The defendant, in a very excited tone, called out,
" It's false."
Mr. Clarkson—The court will perceive, from the
present intemperate conduct of the defendant, that
the charge of gross and outrageous assault he was
about to prefer did not need that confirmation which
the complainant would, on oath, presently give.
The following evidence was then produced :
Mr. John Prescott Knight examined.—Was secre-
tary of the Royal Academy. On Friday, April 27,
the Council was sitting at a late hour, to select from
the numerous works of art sent in for exhibition such
works as might be approved of. A circular was sent
round to those artists whose works could not be ac-
cepted. Mr. Evans sent works to the Academy, but
they could not be exhibited, and a printed circular,
in the usual form, was sent to Mr. Evans. On the
same evening, about eight o'clock, witness, while en-
gaged with the council, received a message from one
of the porters of the academy, who said a gentleman,
named Evans, wished to see him on the subject of a
letter he had sent. Witness told the porter there
must be some mistake, as he had himself written no
letter to Mr. Evans. Afterwards, thinking that some
mistake might have occurred in the delivery of the
circular, witness determined to see Mr. Evans, who
was a perfect stranger, and explain anything that
might require explanation. Witness went into the
hall, having fortunately taken the precaution to put
on his hat, in consequence of the coldness of the wea-
ther. Witness saw Mr. Evans, and, in reply to a
question, said he had not sent a letter to him. The
defendant produced a circular, and asked if his name
was to it? Witness replied it was, but the circular
did not come from him individually, but as the organ
of the society. The defendant, in a violent manner,
desired to have " no -- shuffling," he wanted a
direct answer. 'Witness replied he could no
longer bandy words with the defendant; if the
defendant wished for further information, he would
get it in the clerk's office. Witness turned to leave
the hall, but on hearing "a step following, and the
words " shuffier" and " infernal scoundrel" used, he
turned round, and saw the defendant lay hold of the
small end of a stick, which he carried, and strike a
blow at him with the thick end. The blow was
aimed at witness's head. It fell on the forehead,
brokers in force by the hat, but sufficiently violent to
raise a large swelling on his head. The porters
rushed in and prevented further violence. 'Witness
never offered the least attempt at violence. Witness
had turned to leave the hall, when he was followed,
and struck. From the effects of the blow he fell
against the wall, and was unconscious for a moment
or two; was very sick and dizzy. Witness demanded
the defendant's card, and the defendant gave him one.
The police were sent for, and when a constable came
the defendant said witness had called him a dirty
scoundrel. Witness instantly denied having used
such words. Witness immediately proceeded to the
council-room, and acquainted the council with what
had occurred. The council sent for a medical man,
and placed witness in his care.
Cross-examined—Mr. Evans was a perfect stranger
to him. The circular sent to Mr. Evans was the
usual circular sent by the clerk. Would deliberately
and solemnly swear that be had not used any epithet
or indignity to Mr. Evans. There was a small stick
in the hall. Witness laid hold of it as soon as he
saw the defendant about to strike him. Did not
attempt to strike or menace the defendant with this
stick. Held it up for the purpose of guarding himself
from the blow. The small stick was a thin cane used
by artists. The stick used by the defendant was a
thick stick. The defendant appeared to be very
angry when witness first saw him in the hall.
John Cousins, one of the porters at the institution
in Trafalgar-square, recollected the defendant coming
to the institution and requesting to see Mr. Knight.
The defendant appeared to be in a state of excitement.
Witness soon afterwards heard Mr. Evans and Mr.
Knight in conversation. Heard Mr. Knight say to
the defendant, if he wished for further information,
he must apply to the clerk's office. Heard the de•
fondant say something about Mr. Knight being a
public servant, and not acting as a gentleman, and
immediately afterwards a blow was struck by the
defendant. Witness went forward, and assisted to
secure the defendant.

Charles Hawes, head porter, heard Mr. Knight
refer Mr. Evans to the clerk's office for further ex-
planation. Mr. Evans stamped his stick on the stones,
and said that Mr. Knight was a dirty scoundrel. The
defendant raised his stick, and witness went forward,
but not in time to prevent Mr. Knight from receiving
a blow. The defendant was then secured by the
servants.

Thomas Beechey, another porter, heard the de-
fendant say, " You are the secretary tolthis; institu-
tion; you are no gentleman ; you are a dirty scoun-
drel l" at the same time striking his stick on the floor.
Was certain that the words " Dirty scoundrel" did
not come from Mr. Knight. After the blow was
struck witness took the stick from the defendant, but
afterwards gave it back to him.
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given with considerable violence. Mr. Knight was
not at present suffering from the injury he had sus•
tained, but be had felt the effects of the blow for some
days.
Mr. Bodkin, for the defendant, said, as the Court
had intimated its determination to send the case else-
where, he should reserve his defence, and merely ex-
press his regret that such a proceeding should have
occurred between gentlemen. He conceived he should
not be acting rightly, as the case was to be removed
into another court, if he went into an explanation
of the circumstances which occasioned the alleged
assault.
Mr. HARDWICK—Let the depositions be taken, that
the case may be sent to the quarter sessions.
Bail was applied for.
Mr. HARDWICK named the defendant in 1001., and
two sureties of 501. each.
Bail was tendered and accepted, and the defendan
was liberated.

WESTMIIVSTER.
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE MILI-
TANT.—Edward Roby, John Sturges, and John Sher-
man, three privates in the Grenadier Guards, were
:!hargen with violently assaulting the police, and
William Harper, William Young, and Eliza Paynter,
with inciting the mob to rescue the first-named
soldier.
Between eight and nine o'clock on Friday evening
Edward Buckley, 131 B, was called upon by a female
in the Broadway, Westminster, to take Roby into
custody for stealing a shawl. On the constable ap-
proaching him he swore that he would knock his eyes
out, and forthwith made a desperate attack upon him
And upon another officer who came to his assistance,
knocking them down and kicking them repeatedly.
He was assisted in his violence by the two other sol-
diers, both of whom assaulted the constable, and de-
clared that their comrade should not be taken. A
crowd of 500 persons assembled, and four or five con-
stables, after a great deal of resistance and violence,
were compelled to carry Roby to the station. The
defendants, Harper, Young: and Paynter, repeatedly
called upon the soldiers, and others in the crowd, to
rescue the prisoners.
Mr. Burrill committed Roby for a month, and
fined the whole of the others 3/., .or in default 21
days each.

WORSHIP-STREET.
FRAUDS AT THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.--
John Bean, a carter, in; the employ of Mr.
George Simmonds, a flour factor in Great Garden-
street, Whitechapel, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Arnold, upon a charge of fraudulently obtaining five
sacks of flour from the Eastern Counties Railway.
On the 16th of June last, his master who had in
the railway, granary a quantity of flour, sent him
with a written order and five empty sacks, which ha
was to leave there to have flour shot into them from
the sacks lying there belonging to Messrs. Dixon

and Co. When the flour was afterwards sent for,
however, it was stated t.) have been already de-
livered to the prisoner, who abiconded a few days
afterwards, and was not again met with until now
apprehended.
Mr. Entwistle, clerk at the railway granary, said,
that at the time mentioned, the prisoner came with
the five sacks and the order, and when told that it
appeared to be an order merely to shoot and not de-
liver the flour, he said that must be a mistake. It was
accordingly delivered, and he signed the delivery-book
now produced.
The prisoner, in his defence, said it was a quite a
common occurrence to leave goods at the railway, to
be afterwards fetched away by other persons, even if
he had signed the delivery-book ; and it was, there-
fore, imposiible for him to speak positively to any
particular transaction, but he did not believe he had
ever received the flour in question, or if he did his
master must have had it.
He was remanded.

Two men, named Boo,ley and Savage, who have
been some time in custody, were also remanded upon
a charge of obtaining ten quarters of malt from the
same railway, by means of a forged order. It ap•
peared in this case that Messrs. Smith and Co., who
had a large quantity of malt in the railway ware-
houses, were surreptitiously applied to, in the name
of Messrs. Mumford and Co., for ten quarters, and a
written order for delivery was given, and afterwards
presented at the railway in the shape of an order for
twenty-five quarters. The railway clerk, however,
seeing that it had originally been made out for ten
quarters, delivered only that quantity, which was
taken away in a van driven by the prisoner Bowley,
servant of Mr. Clare, a van proprietor, in Great
Mitchell-street, St. Luke's. Messrs. Mumford and
Co. knew nothing of the order obtained in their name.
Bowley said, in his defence that two persons hired
a van of his master to take twenty-five quarters of
malt from the Eastern Counties Railway to the
Hackney-road, and he was sent to drive the van.
The prisoner Savage was subsequently appre-
hended, and was positively identified by Mr. Clare as
the person who had hired the van to convey twenty-
five quarters of malt from the railway, for which he
was to pay 6s.
There were many charges against the prisoner
Savage, but, he had a way of disguising himself so as
to give himself a different appearance.
The prisoners were remanded for further evidence,
but, under the circumstances, Bowley was admitted
to bail.

THAMES.
Daniel Harley, a powerful young fellow, a ballast
getter, 25 years of age, was charged with feloniously
wounding Mr. Thomas Cock, a clerk, residing at
Church-lane, Whitechapel.
The complainant was proceeding with a friend
through Wapping, on the previous night between
eleven and twelve, when the prisoner and four other
men, with a woman, surrounded them, and in a
threatening manner demanded something to drink ;
being refused, the prisoner struck complainant with a
bag. which had something in it. He struck out
again in his own defence, but did not hit any one, on
which the prisoner made a desperate lunge at him
with a knife. He fortunately warded it off, bit in
doing so his fingers were nearly severed from his
hand. He called loudly for assistance, when some of
the river police approached, on seeing whom the pri-
soner and his party decamped. The prisoner, how-
ever, was subsequently found crouching in a neigh
bouring alley.
The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 40s. or
be imprisoned for a month.
CRUEL AND COWARDLY ASSAULT ON SOME OF THE
CREW OF THE CHINESE JUNIE.---• Two powerful young
labourers named Allen and Meade, residing at Lime-
hothe, were charged with assaulting four of the crew
of the Chinese Junk in the following brutal and
cowardly manner.
The men were passing quietly through Poplar,
when the two ruffians at the bar sallied out of the
Harrow public house, and, without the slightest pro-
vocation, knocked the men down, and thumped and
kicked them in the most brutal manner.
Mr. INGHAM sentenced Allen, who was the worst,
to pay a fine of 205., or be imprisoned for a fortnight;
Meade was ordered to pay a fine of 55., or to be im-
prisoned for three days. Locked up in default.

THE ALLEGED SUICIDE FROM
WATERLOO-BRIDGE.
On Saturday evening an inquest was held by Mr.
Higgs, the coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, at
the Spotted Dog, Strand, on the body of Mr. Henry
Ford, aged 36.
Mr. W. It. Cooke, compositor, stated that he had
known the deceased for seven or eight years, who
was also a compositor. On Friday morning he met
him at the Bell Tavern, in Wellington- street, Strand.
At that time he was very much depressed in spirits,
which he had been labouring under for some weeks
past. Witness left the Bell with a friend, and the
deceased followed to Waterloo-bridge. The de-
ceased put down a penny and walked on, but witness
called on him not to go so fast, as his friend was
troubled with the rheumatism. He only turned
round, laughed, and then went on at a quicker pace,
till he reached the third recess, when he got on the
seat, knocked his hat off, and climbed over the
parapet. Witness ran to the spot, and could just see
him through the ballustrades falling from the ledge
outside.
To His impression was that he
threw A boat was procured, and he
was taken out in about four or five minutes. His
depression, no doubt, was caused by pecuniary em-
barrassments, and he knew they must one day be dis-
covered.
Richard Teasdale, a waterman, proved seeing the
deceased when he had fallen about half down, and he
then was dashed on the abutment with great violence,
and then into the river. He was got out, but ap-
peared quite dead, and witness was of opinion that
his death must have been instantaneous, as the whole
of the back of his head was forced in, and his brains
scattered about.
Mr. James Wilkie, another compositor, who was
in company with Mr. Cooke, gave similar testimony
as to the deceased's conduct after leaving the Bell.
He, however, had some doubts whether he had thrown
himself over the parapet, or had fallen.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict "That the
deceased died from fracture of the skull, caused by a
fall ; but whether that fall arose from accident or his
own act they had not sufficient evidence to show."

APPALLING MURJJERS.
(From the Welshman of Friday.)
It is happily but seldom that it becomes our painful
duty to record an instance of the double crime of
murder and suicide in this peaceable locality. We
are this week, however, reluctantly compelled to re-
port one of the most horrific tragedies which has ever
transpired in the principality.
Early on Wednesday morning a rumour gained
extensive credence, that in the neighbourhood of
Llanbyther, a man had murdered his wife and child,
and then committed suicide; and upon making in-
vestigation into the circumstances, it was unfortu-
natelyinhTuh inhuman
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residing at Cefnrhyddlan-issa, in the parish of Llan-
wenog, Cardiganshire, and it appears that early on
Tuesday morning, while in bed with his wife and
child, (the latter nine months old) he attacked them
with a razor, and having first nearly severed the
infant's head from its body, he attempted the de-
struction of his wife. He first cut her across the
wrist, severing completely all the arteries, and
next gashed her throat and face in the most fright-
ful manner. Not content with this, he cut her
across the abdomen, ripping it completely open, and
causing the intestines to protrude. Leaving the house
he rushed into the Tivy, for the purpose, it is imagined,
of drowning himself, but finding the water too
shallow for his purpose, he returned to the house and
attempted to cut his own throat. Failing, however,
to sever the jugular vein, he ripped open his own ab-
domen with the razor, which caused a similar protru-
sion to that which his unfortunate wife experienced.
Police-serjeant Edward Lloyd, of the Carmarthen-
shire constabulary, stationed at Llanbyther, hearing
of the occurrence, immediately repaired to the spot,
and found the little girl in bed, with its throat
frightfully lacerated, quite dead and cold. The wife,
Mary Davies, had escaped from the house, and having
proceeded about a field's breadth on the south side,
fell down. When found she was still alive, but lying
exhausted on her right side in a ditch with her intes-
tines visibly protruding, and her throat, wrist,
and face, cut in a most fearful manner.
She could speak faintly, and in reply to
questions, answered that her husband had perpetrated
this outrage with his razor. She was immediately
conveyed into the house wrapped in a blanket, and
on further search being made on the north side of the
residence, at the bottom of a field, the husband was
found lying on his left side in his shirt sleeves, having
his throat lacerated, and his abdomen cut open from
side to side about an inch below the navel, with his
intestines also protruding. lie was still alive, and
could speak more distinctly than could his ill-fated
partner. He acknowledged to the police constable
that he had killed the child, and that he had cut his
own and his wife's throat with his razor. The razor
with which the direful deeds were perpetrated, was
found lying in a brook adjacent to the spot where the
unhappy man was discovered. Mr. Thomas, the
surgeon of Dollan, was speedily sent for, who dressed
the various wounds, but at once pronounced each
case to be mortal. His pm's:fiction was verified by
the death of Thomas Davies, at eleven o'clock that
night, while the decease of the wife transpired at nine
o'clock on Wednesday morning.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman ot the Board of Inland Re-
venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on Saturday/ at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.