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PRI Vl' COUNCIL, April 3.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day, for the
purpose of hearing petitions for the confirmation and extension of
patents. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Vice-
Chancellor Wigram, the Jtylge of the Admiralty Court, and the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
IN TUB MATTER OF MONTE'S PATENT.
The petition in this case was ordered to stand for hearing on Mon-
day, the 11th of May.
IN THE MATTER OF STEAD'S PATENT.
This case came before their Lordships upon the petition of Mr.
David Stead, praying for the confirmation of a patent taken out by
him for improvement in wood paving, by means of sextagonal blocks.
The petition was opposed by the Metropolitan Wood Paving Company.
fiir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Wells appeared for the petition, and
Mr. Matthew Davenport Hill and Mr. Webster opposed it.
The Attorney-General appeared for the Crown, but declined to ad-
dress the Court.
Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the arguments at half-past
four o'clock, postponed their judgment.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, April 3.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
RAILWAY SPECULATIONS.—IN RE COLLINS.
The bankrupt in this case is the secretary to Pilbrowia
Atmospheric Railway Company, and has also been a provi-
sional committeeman in several railway companies, and he
came up to-day to pass his last examination.
Mr. Lawrance, solicitor to the bankrupt, said a question
*might arise as to whether the bankrupt was bound to furnish
an account of certain railway companies in which he had
been engaged as a provisional committeeman.
Mr. Commissioner FoxsuxQuk--There must be a general
statement as to the liabilities and profits.
Mr. E. James said he appeared as counsel for the assignees,
and wished to put a few questions to the bankrupt. Had
you at anv time the custody of a cash book connected with
Pilbrow's-Atmospheric Railway ? Bankrupt—Yes; I gave
it into the custody of my brother about the early part of
November, because the directors were divided on an opinion
as to whether certain sums of money receieed should be en-
tered in it.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—IS he a partner in the
concern ? Mr. James—He is, your Honour.
Mr. Lawrance—Are you a partner? Bankrupt—No.
Mr. Lawrance—ls there any objection to hand this hoo,li,
over to the official assignee 'for sate custody? Bankrupt—l
am merely the servant of the gentlemen of this company,
and if they wish it to be delivered up it will be so.
Mr. James—We do not wish to keep it from the company.
How could you make your balance-sheet up without it ?
Bankrupt—From my recollection.
To what amount does the book contain entries P—About
3,0001. I had shares in Pilbrow's Atmospheric Railway, the
Concentrated Essence of Tea and Coffee Companies, and
others, for which I paid money, and an account of which is
contained in the book that is missing.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE—It will be difficult to
induce me to pass the examination until this book is pro-
duced.
Mr. James said it was fearful to see the way in which ba-
lance-sheets were sworn to.
After some further discussion the case was adjourned.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, April 2.
(Before Mr. Justice PArrEsoN.)
George Pearson and Robert M'Connell were indicted for
cutting and wounding James Barlow.
Mr. \Vhigham and Mr. Baxter conducted the prosecution ;
the prisoners were defended by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and
Mr. Monk. _ _

It appeared that a quarrel had arisen between the pri-
soners' party and a number of persons employed at the gas-
works at Heaton Norris, whe had met at a public-house there
called the Crown Inn. The prisoner and his party were
turned out, but waited for the others, and a scuffle then
ensued, in which knives were drawn, and the prosecutor re-
ceived two cuts, one in the shoulder and one in the neck,
from a person of the name of Taylor, not in custody. The
evidence of the witnesses, however, failed in showing a parti-
cipation in Taylor's act on the part of the prisoner, and they
were Acquitted.
James Garragan was indicted for the manslaughter of
Henry Sherlock.
Mr. Arnold conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was
defended by Mr. Atkinson.

This indictment also arose out of a public-house squabble.
The deceased, his brother, and another person had, on the
9th of March, met the prisoner and a number of others at a
beer-house at Kensington, in Liverpool, kept by a person of
the name of Hughes. Some quarrel took place about a glass
of ale, and blows were exchanged until the landlord turned
them out of his house. In the street the quarrel was re-
newed, and several on one side and the other were knocked
down. When it was over the deceased was found to be
bleeding from his temple, and complained of being hurt in
the side. He continued ill for some days, but afterwards
went to his work for a short time. He was at last obliged
to discontinue his work, and died on the 22d. On a post
mortem examination there was found a large coagulum of
blood upon the brain, sufficient to cause death. It appeared
also that the liver was slightly lacerated, and there was a
small perforation of the gall-bladder, which, of itself, would
finally have been fatal. The principal evidence against the
prisoner to connect him with the violence which caused the
death, was an observation which, it was alleged, he was over-
heard to make while passing down the street after the affray,
namely, " Did you see me jump on Lim when you were
kicking him in the public-house?" There was, however, no
evidence to show that the deceased had been knocked down
in the house at all, or been kicked by any one. The violence
which caused his death had taken place after he went out,
and seemed as likely to have been caused by a fall as a blow;
nor was the actual participation in that assault by the pri-
soner clearly shown.—Verdict, Not Guilty.
On the civil side the Court was engaged with the case of
"Toulmin v. Hedley," tried at the last assizes. It is an ac-
tion for not accepting guano, and the particulars have been
already before the public.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 2.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
John Sampson was indicted for embezzling three several
sums of 201., 241., and 101., which he had received for the
churchwardens and overseers of Bedminster, he being their
clerk. _ _

Mr. Stone and Mr. Edwards were counsel for the prose•
cution, and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Slade defended the pri.

soner.
From the evidence, which was very long and complicated,
the following facts were elicited :—ln the year 1836 the pri-
soner was appointed collector of the rates for that part of
the parish of Bedminster which is in the county of Somerset ;
but some doubt arising as to the legality of his appointment,
in the year 1839 he was made assistant-overseer, and he
continued to collect the rates until the end of the year 1845.
He had a salary of 1501. a year. The amount he had to
collect was about 5,000/. The prisoner also collected the
borough rates. The prisoner was ordered to keep a cash
book, wherein he was to enter all moneys collected by him.
The overseers were to check the cash receipts weekly. On
the 15th of September, 1844, the prisoner received 201. of
Richert Hunt; on the 9th of November, 1844, he received
of the same person a sum of 24/. 3s. 3d. ; on the Bth of De-
cember he received of Mrs. Jefferys 10/., but no entry of
those sums appeared in the cash book. In the latter part of
the year 1844 the prisoner was several times remonstrated
with for not paying over the balances of his accounts. On
the Ist of January, 1845, a special meeting of the overseers
was called, at which the prisoner attended, and attention
was called to the smallness of the weekly collections by the
prisoner. He expressed a wish to have time to make up his
rate-book, as he had been told that he had not entered some
sums he had received, and that in other instances he had
only entered sums as then received which it had been disco-
vered had been received months before. The prisoner was
told at the meeting of the Ist of January that there was a
balance of 2401. due from him. He said he would pay it,
and on the 3d of January he did pay that amount. On the
2d of January there was a vestry meeting, and on the Bth of
January all the books were taken from the prisoner, and
from that time the prisoner was not seen, and his house was
shut up. Search was afterwards made at Brighton and other
places for the prisoner, but eventually he was apprehended
at his own house in December, to which he had returned.
The case for the prosecution having closed,
Mr. COCKBURN took an objection that the indictment
charged the prtsener as being the clerk of the overseers,
whereas by the evidence it was shown he was an assistant-
overseer.
Mr. Baron ROIXE said that the prisoner was expected to
perform all the duties of an overseer. No doubt formerly
he had been a collector of the rates, and acting as the ser-
vant of the overseers; that appointment, however, had been
cancelled, because the vestry had appointed him assistant-
overseer, therefore he could not be considered a servant.
It would consequently be the duty of the jury to acquit the

prisoner.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Williams and John Ward were indicted for a burglary
in the house of Thomas Bunn, at Frome-Selwood, on the
20th of February, and stealing therefrom a silver salver and
other articles.
Mr. Stone conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr.
Saunders defended the prisoners.
On the morning of the 21st of February the prosecutor and
his family were alarmed by a noise in the house. The pro-
secutor got up, took his sword, and went down stairs. He
found a fire had been lighted in the drawing-room grate, and
bottles were on the table. The drawing-room window had
instantly
been broken in, a silver salver and a watch, which had been
in the room the night before, were missing. Early that
morning the prisoners were seen at the Tiverton station with
bundles in their hands.
t hSome i
nptenr persons
custody,
,o
as
na
ti them looked
gave
closely at the bundles, and seeing they contained some silver
articles,
upon search-
ing them several housebreaking mip !rnents were found upon
them. The silver articles were identified as being the pro-
perty of Mr. Bunn.
The jury at once found the prisoners Guilty, and they were
sentenced to be transported for ten years
Daniel worth and John North were indicted for stealing an
ewe sheep, the property of Mr. bampney.
Mr. Salmon conducted the case for the prosecution, and
Mr. Edwards defended the prisoners.
This was a very simple case, The sheep was missed from
the field, the entrails and blood were found in the field, the
foot-marks of two persons were traced from that spot to a
pond,foot=marks in which a sheep skin was found. The foot-arks were
then traced to the house where the prisoners lived, and from
thence to a rick, where the carcase of a sheep was disco -
vered. The prisoners' boots corresponded with the foot-marks.
Verdict—Guilty.
John North was sentenced to ten years transportation, a
former conviction having been proved against him; and
Daniel to fifteen months' imprisonment.

NORTH
BWIRAKELNEnSEAtsaf::::
RAILWCAIYVICLISSID2c.n-21BeEfoitrLeAtsi;;.
tiIESTER AND
Mr. WELSBY opened the 1
action was on the case, tha't tea-dix:lgs, to the effect that the
y
statute to make a rPn- defendants were bound by
o JusticemCr. April 2.
ductinr, 0- • to Tranmere Ferryj before ton-
rßilway farther than Otange.lane I and that
,ntky, idot done so, to the injury and damage of the
plaintiff; to which the defendants pleaded not guilty, and
dtnied the plaintiff's right, The damages were laid at
2d,oodh
Mr. JERVIS stated the case to the effect, that Mr. Chamber-
lane is tne owner of Tranmere Ferry, which had been long es-
tablished and was of long legal existence, and of great value
before the Chester and Birkenhead Railway was made. He
had expended above 10,000/. on the landing-place, and
7,000/. or 8,0001. in boats, all of which had been rendered
valueless. by the conduct of the defendants. In 1836 and
1837, it was proposed to make the present railway. kr.
Chamberlaine had also a scheme of giving facilities to all
the felt% as Well MU. They wore troth before rar-

liament ; and it was suggested that some compromise should
be made; and the two lines were referred to Lord Sandon
and Mr. Patten ; and the Legislature sanctioned the present
line stopping at Grange-lane; and they introduced a clause
in that Act, that the Company should not go beyond Grange-
lane to the Woodside shore. The Learned Counsel then
read the eleventh section of the Act, to show that the object
of the Act was, that the ferries of Woodside and Tranmere
should be kept equal; and the Company were not to go to
Woodside Ferry, unless they went also to Tranmere, without
they had the sanction of the proprietor of the latter. He
then went on to advert to the establishment of the Monk's
Ferry, which two trials stamped as an usurpation of the
rights of the Woodside Ferry. The parties connected with
the railway then bought Monk's Ferry, the lease of Wood-
side Ferry, and Mr. Price's freehold in it, for 50,0001. or
60 000/., and then they ran their railway to Monk's Ferry,
which had been proired in the Court of Exchequer to be part
of the liberty of Woodside Ferry, and which consequently
was an evasion of the obligations of the Company under the
Act of Parliament, to the injury of the rights of the
plaintiff. The recital of the Act proved that all the ferries
should be equal, and be both supplied. He should show from
the reports of the Company the fraud that they had prac-
tised. The object of the parties had always been to
evade this, contract;, and in April, 1840, the Committee of
the Company reported to the effect, that they had made
inquiries into the purchase of Woodside Ferry, and that
the object of making the purchase by the directors did
not
.appear very clear, as the Company were precluded by
Act of Parliament from taking the railway to that place;
and the Committee expressed their disapprobation of the
purehase. It appeared that 32,000/. had been paid for the
Woodside Ferry, subject to an annual rent of 15,000/. ; and
that they had given 25,000/. for Monk's Ferry, without any
legal right to take passengers from that ferry to Liverpool ;
and that purchase was also censured; but it was stated that
inasmuch as the Company had bought Woodside Ferry for
ten years, nobody would interfere with their use of Monk's
Ferry. The Company then smuggled a clause in one of their
Bills to relieve thy' from their obligation to the plaintiff,
which, being detected, was struck out. The Court of Chan-
cery had been appealed to, but had decided that it was a fit
question for .4917,„ 1.1,E. should prove Mr. Chamberlaine's
"ifeiiihlaTi been' denied. He should prove the liability
of the defendants. He should show they had rendered the
ferry utterly useless, and in fact ruined the property. Mr.
Chamberlaine has lost the cost of his improvement, and also
his boats, his property, and the rent of his hotel. There
could be no question but that Mr. Chamberlaine was entitled
to damages. He did not wish to persecute the Company, but
if his claim was not acceded to, he should call upon the jury
to give him ample recompense.
The case having been proved by evidence,
Mr. CROMPTON addressed the Jury for the defendants, and
said the only question was, had the defendants really done
what they were prohibited from doing by Act of Parliament?
There was no ground for saying that damages must be given.
This was a mere question to try a right ; and when that was
done, they would see what would be done upon it. To call
for damages was an attempt to frighten the Company out of
giving him something approaching to the 20,000/. at which
the damages were laid. He contended that a railway to
Tranmere would be of no advantage ; and if the plaintiff suc-
ceeded, then the Monk's Ferry Railway must be put down
until the Tranmere Railway was made. It was ridiculous to
ask for the value of the pier, the boats and the estate ; the
most the plaintiff was entitled to was his right to this rail-
way. He contended that the clause in the Act of Parlia-
ment ought not to be construed strictly ; and he contended
at length, that in point of law, the defendants were entitled
to a verdict.
The JUDGE said that point was to be reserved for the opi-
nion of the Court above; and, therefore, Mr. Crompton had
better go to the jury on the question of damages.
Mr. Cnoiurrox said he could not separate the two ques-
tions in his address to the jury, as special damage was out
of the case.
Mr. JERVIS said the better way would be for the jury to
assess the damage; but if Mr. Crompton could substantiate
his legal points, to strike the damage off. Tranmere was
valuable for docks, and it was of the utmost importance to
have a railway. He had no objection to leave it to a gentle-
man of the bar to say what should be done, and to fix a
penalty to ensure it being done.
A conference then took place on the recommendation of
the Judge, and the parties agreed that the plaintiff should
have a verdict for the damages in the declaration, subject
to the opinion of the Court above on the clause in the Act
of Parliament, and an arbitrator to decide what shall be
done.
Verdict for the plaintiff, subject as above stated.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, April 2.
The Commission for this county was opened yesterday by
Chief Baron Pollock. The civil business is light and unin-
teresting. The calendar contains the names of seventy-four
prisoners. The Chief Baron took his seat this morning at
ten o'clock, and in his charge to the grand jury alluded to
the large number of prisoners presented in the calendar,
owing to their having held no adjourned session prior to the
assizes. Not expecting such an increase, and their time
being limited, arrangements had been made with his Learned
Brother Platt, who would commence assisting him in trying
prisoners as soon as bills sufficient had been returned into
Court by them.
Samuel Jones, 34, was indicted for stabbing and wounding
William Jones, on the 23d September.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, that him-
self, the prisoner, and others, had been dining at the Church
Inn. Prisoner began jumping and dancing about, and did
not.seem like a man; he was preaching and praying; then
he talked about fighting, said he was the champion of Eng-
land and Wales, and would have. a ploughing match for a
sovereign. Prosecutor and another man took him out with
them. On prosecutor coming up, he stabbed and cut him
on the right thigh with a knife. The poor fellow fell down,
and was carried into a neighbour's house. He was perma-
nently lamed from the injuries he received.
In cross-examination, witness said prisoner was 'a tidy
man, and had sustained an injury on the head. He said
that he repented having married the woman he did.—
(Laughter.)
Mr. HUDDLES TON—That's no proof of derangement or in-
sanity, you know.
CHIEF BARON—It may be all very well for single men to
say so.—(Laughter.)
Prosecutor said he did not think prisoner knew what he
was doing at the time.

A long argument ensued as to his intention.
Mr. HUDDLESTON said he could not struggle against an
assault, and
The jury, under his Lordship's direction, acquitted the
prisoner of the felony, and found him guilty of an assault.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
William Hidd, 25, was indicted for feloniously wounding William
Mullett, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor in this case is a police constable of the G division,
and early on the morning of the sth of March he was on duty in
Saffron-hill, when he found the prisoner, who is an Irishman, in a
very excited state and creating a great disturbance, and threatening
to " Murder any bloody Bobby who interfered with him." The
constable requested him to go away, and was endeavouring to per-
suade him to do so, when, without the slightest provocation, the
prisoner drew a life-preserver, as the instrument is termed, from his
pocket, and struck the constable a violent blow on the head with it,
and felled him to the ground, and then kicked him in a most brutal
manner. . . .

The defence set up by the prisoner was, that he had been drinking,
and ho did not know what he was about.
The Jury proved the prisoner Guilty, and evidence was then given
that he had been on a previous occasion convicted of felony, and
sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
jr. BULLOCK sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
'Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a fu]

Bench of Magistrates.)
Robert Baker, William Taylor, and Thomas Jones were in-
dicted, on Friday, charged with having committed a violent
assault upon James Allen.
Mr. PRENDERGAST appeared for the prosecution.
The defendants, it will be recollected by our readers, are
privates in the Grenadier Guards, and on the evening of the
18th of the last month they went to the Cock public-house,
in Tothill-street, Westminster, and having been there a short
time, left, saying that they should quickly return, when
they would " turn the house inside out." This threat they
carried into execution, for in half an hour they came back,
with about thirty of their comrades, when they commenced
annoying and assaulting various persons who were at the
time in the house. Amongst these was the prosecutor,
the pot-boy, who having entered the parlour and en-
deavoured to quell the disturbance which the defend-
ants were causing, they knocked him about without re-
morse. During this part of the transaction, there was
another man, who, being alarmed, ran up stairs, but on being
pursued by the soldiers he jumped out of the first-floor
window. On these men coming down stairs again, they
knocked about a person of the name of Flexton. This dis-
turbance, it was stated, collected a mob of at least 300 per-
sons around the house, and it was some time after the de-
fendants had left before anything like order could be restored.
The defendants each denied having been in the house on
the evening in question, and called witnesses to prove an
alibi. They, however, failed in establishing the fact of their
presence at another place,le
The jury found them al Guilty.
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esteenr t. e n
Hue,
should,seaxide except
thatttho
there-
fore, e:
forJaonseescotnhdenapsslaeaudlte.d. "Guilty to an indictment against him
It appeared, in this instance, that a man of the name of
Allen, one of the witnesses on the former indictment, had,
on the day after the assault, gone up to the barracks for the
purpose of identifying the parties who had committed the
offence, and upon his pointing out Jones as one of them, he
at once knocked him down.
fore, award the following punishment : to Jones four months',
to Taylor three months', and to Baker six weeks' im-
ronfeda jvueDryG.EserrousPascheian
offenceThe was Lea
prisonment.
The other cases were destitute of interest,
Ortiee concerned.

an, awful explosion EXPLOSION OF A STEAM-BOILER AND DISTRUCTION
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OP A MANUFACTORY.—TWO LIVES LOST.—On Tuesday afternoon,
tatrlTie-Street, by wli'4.4 tv,ke perlons
ilobuo:lei3 of a steam-boiler
weretterit kpi,alli.etd ;0 onea
at about half-past five,,o'cl9c4p
hsf6fifsift! , to Mr. Samuel
serlbuSly.
,11411,rA thil MA. 6t: the
~ p*-10, destroyed, and
factory much damaged. The explosion was tertik,Th tit its force
sad effects. The boiler itself was driven from its place 111:` '
..tY
mroawil boiad
the foundry, a distance of several yards. The
water tank, which held about eighteen or twenty square feet
of water, and wat full at the time, was blown from over
the boiler, to a distance of eight of ton yards, and ene side
knocked. tht. nit itbeie pteinises, Which were four stories high,
;;41.ce reduced to a heap of ruins. The bricks, &c., projected from the
building by the force of the explosion, struck against the opposite
houses in Starkie-street, and four or five of them presented the ap-
pearance of having been battered with cannon shots. There were
about forty men at work on and off in the manufactory, and it was a
providential circumstance that very few were on the premises at the
time of the accident. The regular number of hands employed is from
Liver Mercury.
siktS' to seventy.
SMAsnEtts.—Yesterday (Friday), the 3d in:st., two
young men, named George Jones, alias Harris, and George Gardner,
from Orchard-street, Westminster, were raced in the dock for final
examination, before the county magistrates at Rochester, charged
with passing counterfeit coin. The two prisoners were firs t appre-
hended at Chatham, on the 23d of last month, for passing I sad shil-
lings at that place; but, as the evidence was not sufficielf L to send
them for trial, they were discharged, on Monday, the 30th ult., and
or the following day (Tuesday) they were both again ape mehended
by Thomas:
Everest, constable at Northfieet, passing a bad half-
crown
at Mr. Abraham Flint's, Plough Ta, ern, at that p 1 ace, for a
pint of porter. The prisoners, on the constable searching ti teen, said
they had no more, for that was the last one which they ha 3 brought
with them from Chatham, and the man Jones said " I gave the hal
thoug f-
crown to the landlord, as we ht we were far enough . out of the
Rochester district." The above ease and another from Cb atham was
tam mount tug pripMpi Vl9 stand cosnaltted tOr trk 41. • .
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