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London, England, 1846-11-21 00:00:00

DIRECT RAILWAY.

Mr. WORDSWORTH moved for a rule to show cause
why an order made by the Lord Chief Baron in this case,
should not be set aside. The order in question, which
was made on the 18th of July, was to stay all proceed-
ings in an action to recover 1,3301., from the Right
Honourable William King, for advertisements in-
serted by the plaintiff, in various newspapers,
of the Tunbridge and Rye-Harbour Direct Railway,
till a case pending in the Queen's Bench against Lord
Beresford for the same sum was decided. He (Mr.
Wordsworth) made the application after the decision
their Lordships bad given on Saturday last, which
declared that the plaintiff could not proceed for the re-
covery of their debt against the provisional directors in
their joint capacity, but only against them severally.
Rule granted.
SHAW AND ANOTHER V. CLARKSON.—LONDON, PORTS•
MOUTH, AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES moved for a rule nisi for a new
trial in this case on the ground of surprise, and that the
verdict was against evidence. The cause was tried at
the last Middlesex sittings, before Mr. Justice Cresswell,
and a verdict given for the plaintiffs for 6301. The
plaintiffs are printers and lithographers, and the
action was brought to recover for work done for
the London, Portsmouth, and Chichester Railway Com-
pany, of which Mr. Clarkson, a proctor of Doctors'
Commons, was a provisional director and chairman.
The point at issue was, whether the company or
the engineers were the contracting party. Messrs.
Drayson, the engineers, were the projectors of
the company, and gave the first order to the plaintiffs
on the 15th of July last year, whereas the defendant
did not join the company till the October following.
The Learned Gentleman went at great length through
the affidavits to show that the evidence supported the
inference that the orders were given by the engineers on
their own account, and that the company looked to them
and not to the plaintiffs for the work being done.
Rule granted.

SECONDARIES' COURT, .Nor.: 20.
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
BARNETS V. NEWTE.
This was an action to recover the sum of 1121. 3s. 53.,
the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered.
Mr. WORDSWORTH appeared for the plaintiff, who is a
stationer and printer. The defendant is a gentleman,
who was one of the provisional directors of the Jamaica
,Southern and Eastern Railway Company. The claim
was for books, printing the prospectuses, allotment let-
ters, and scrip shares. The original demand against the
Company was 1921. 3s. 23., but the plaintiff admitted the
receipt of 801, which he applied to the first part of
the account, the defendant not having come into
the management in June, 1845, and remained therein
till December. He, the Learned Counsel, would call
witnesses to prove the active part which the defendant
had taken in the affairs of the company, and the fairness
of the charges, as it was now the prevailing opinion,
both in and out of Court, that the tradesmen were, in
such cases, in the habit of making higher charges to
railway companies than to ordinary customers, which,
however, was not the fact in this case.
Mr. Shiers, the secretary to the company, proved that
the work charged for had been done, and that defendant
was one of the managing committee during the period
above specified, and the goods charged for supplied.
Mr. Fleming, a printer, and a Mr. Henneky, were called,
and proved the value of the goods, and the jury gave a
verdict for the amount claimed.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 20.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE 'WILKINS.
This bankrupt, who was one of the partners in the
firm of Beattie, M.'Naughten, and Co., of Nicholas-lane,
Lombard-street, Levant merchants, whose debts and
liabilities amounted to about 240,0001., and whose bank-
ruptcy was attributed to failures in the Levant, came
up on his adjourned examination.
Mr. James appeared on behalf of the creditors, and
Mr. Cooke for the bankrupt.
It appeared, in the course of a long examination, that
the bankrupt had previously been in partnership in the
firm of Wilkins and Preston, and Wilkins al.d Mongredi,
and on the partnership being dissolved it was, he as-
serted, agreed upon that he should be released from
all liabilities, as he had property in China and elsewhere,
the proceeds of which would cover all the partner-
ship demands against him. As far as the transactions
with Preston were concerned, the moneys had been
received, but in the other he ha.d, after joining the firm
of M`Naughten, renewed his liability to the amount of
4,0001, by a personal engagement.
Mr. CooitE urged that the bankrupt had been to
Constantinople, and on his return surrendered under the
fiat-against the firm, and adopted their accounts. He
had prepared a statement of his accounts with Preston,
and was proceeding with the other, but, not expecting to
be called upon for it, he must now ask for time. There
could be no doubt that at the time he dissolved partner-
ship with the other firms he believed himself and them
solvent. Although released from claims by them, he was
not released against creditors up to that time, but every
thing had been or would be
The COMMISSIONERsaid if the bankrupt had been
once released, he ought not to have again made himself
liable after joining a new firm.
Mr. JAMES said such a proceeding greatly affected
the stability of firms. Bankrupt had not a shilling to
meet the demand on him.
The case was ultimately adjourned for ten days.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Robert Beddonze and David Read, were charged with
assaulting Andrew Stone, on Thursday night, at the
bar of the Crown and Grapes public-house, Little New-
port-street.
Inspector Whall, of the C division, stated that the
complainant was unable to attend that morning in conse-
quence of the injuries he had received, and handed in a
certificate to that effect from Dr. E. Gaudin.
Stephen Edwards, master butcher, 21, Little Newport-
market, said he was sitting with some of his friends at a
table in front of the bar of the Crown and Grapes, and
the prisoners, who were strangers to him, were drinking
at the same bar, and seemed the worse for liquor. Some
little time after, a French gentleman, the complainant,
with his wife and three young gentlemen in company, came
in, and in the effort to pass the bar slightly pressed
upon the prisoners. Read assailed him with abusive
language, and wished to fight him, which the complain-
ant declined. Read then rushed up and laid hold of
complainant by the collar, dragged him along the floor,
and struck him with great violence. Peddome instigated
Road to continue, who tore the man with his nails,
struck him, and kicked him.
Mr. HARDWICK remanded the case till Thursday next,
and ordered the prisoners to find bail in 201. each for
their appearance to answer the charge on that day.
MARYLEBONE.
John Lester, clerk to Messrs. Deacon and Co., White
Horse, Cripplegate, and who, as carriers, have extensive
warehouses at the Camden-town station of the London
and North-Western Railway Company, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Long, on the charge of having com-
mitted numerous robberies.
Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. Robinson for the prisoner, whose connexions are, it
is said, highly respectable.
The court was much crowded, and owing to the fact
of many acts of plunder having been perpetrated at the
above and other railway stations by porters, carters, &c.,
the proceedings excited considerable interest. The case
was first brought up on Friday, the 13th inst., when,
after a few facts had been gone into, the prisoner was
remanded, in order to afford time for Hillsden, 62 S,
a very active officer, to make further inquiry. The in-
vestigation now occupied nearly three hours, but the
whole history of the affair may be thus briefly narrated:—
The prisoner, who was night clerk, was, at seven
o'clock in the morning of the 12th inst. met in the
Hampstead-road, at which time he was coming in the
direction from the station, and had with him a brown
paper parcel. Information was given to the foreman, and
on the prisoner being spoken to he denied having car-
ried away any parcel at all. It was at length decided
that he should be given into custody, and he was ac-
cordingly conveyed to the police-station. His apartments
in Hartland-terrace, Kentish-town, were subsequently
searched, and in them were found two handsome shawls
of Norwich manufacture and a new hat. The articles
alluded to were now produced, as were also six expen-
sive half shawls. The latter were pickzd up shortly
after the prisoner was taken in charge, and were lying
wrapped up in paper in the path along which he (pri-
soner) was taken while in custody, and the supposition,
therefore, was, that he had .dropped the said parcel,
which at the period in question he had in his possession.
The property was identified as having been sent from
various houses in the City to customers in different parts
of the country, and it was stated that some persons to
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Charles Sreeves, a master-carpenter and builder, was
placed at the bar, charged with the following robbery.
Mr. Robinson attended for the prisoner.
It appeared that upon many occasions lately a very
large quantity of bricks, the property of Mr. Fergussoa