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London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

NES f)AYt EV_ENf 14:'0VENItEll 25, 1846.

' arisen, had been in repeated instances guilty of a con-
tempt of this Court, acting, on the advice, it would
appear, that he could defeat the award the Court had
previously opiered to be made. The defendant, how-
ever, would find any attempt of his impotent to defeat
the enforcement of the award, and that he was utterly
mistaken in supposing the Court had not full power to
vindicate its rules and orders. It was their determina-
tion to render the law effective in such cases as this as
far as the Legislature had given them power
to do so. Though it was to a, certain extent
uncertain whether the Court should fix a certain term of
imprisonment, or order the confinement to be continued
till the award, for the contempt of which the defendant
was in custody, was fulfilled ; still they were strongly of
opinion that any term of imprisonment they might order
would not liberate the defendant from the contempt of
the Court, but that he would still be liable to be brought
up and committed for the same. The defendant was
charged not with one act of comtempt, but for continued
contempt, and any, term of imprisonment would not ex-
punge the liability, which could only be removed by the
completion of the award, or by the payment of the value
of the wine, spirits, warrants, &c., with the costs incurred,
Looking at all the facts of the case, the Court were of
opinioa that the defendant bad possessed the means of
completing the award, and his not doing so, but acting
in continued contempt, called for no consideration on
their parts. With the object, therefore, of vindicating
the authority of the Court, and giving effect to such
awards, protecting the civil right of the parties interested
therein, the judgment on the defendant was, that be
be imprisoned for a period of two years, or until such
time as he had paid the value of the property made in
the award with the costs since incurred.
The defendant was then removed in the custody of the
officer of the Court.

EDWARDS V. SHAW.
This was an action brought by an attorney resident
at Birmingham against the plaintiff, as Vice-Chairman
and provisional director of a railway company, for work
and labour done on behalf of the said company. The
action was to have been tried at the last Warwick assizes,
but before the case came on, it was arranged between the
parties that the bill of particulars should be amended, so
as to give the defendant credit for 500/., whichle had
paid. The action would then be for 300/.., the balance
alleged to be due. The defendant denied the liability,
anthrough some mismanagement, which the plaintiff,
in his affidavits, attributed to the neglect of the attorney
of the former, the ease as amended, was not entered in
time for trial. A rule was moved this term, on behalf
of the plaintiff, to change the venue to Middlesex, and
to have the declaration and issue amended.

Mr. Sergeant Ryles and Mr. Mellor appeared this day
against the rule ; Mr. Sergeant Channel for it.
Rule made absolute.
JACKSON AND ANOTHER V. MAGNAY-HEREFORD AND
MERTHYR TYDVIL RAILWAY.

This WAS an action brought against Sir Wm. Magnay,
as one of the board of management of this line of rail-
way, to recover for goods sold and delivered on its be.
half. Shortly after the action was brought a note was
sent from the company's attorney to the plaintiff's at-
torney, intimating that if a fresh bill was made out, with
the costs incurred in bringing the action, the company
would discharge the same. With this understanding the
record was withdrawn, and now the defendant moved
for a rule to enter a nonsuit on his behalf. Mr, Lush
moved for the rule on a previous day, alleging that
plaintiff was no party to the arrangement with the com-
pany, and that he denied his liability.
Mr. White was heard to•day against the rule, and Mr.
Lush in reply.
The matter was arranged that the rule should be
discharged on the plaintiff giving a peremptory under-
taking to proceed to trial in the next term, and the
Court so ordered.

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
The whole of the cases this morning were undefended,
chiefly on bills of exchange, and none were of the
,lightest public interest.
The Learned SECONDARY said that much unnecessary
trouble and expense was saved by the plaintiffs obtain-
ing ajudge's order on the defendants to admit their sig-
natures to bills, as in a great number of cases the de-
fendants vexatiously pleaded non-acceptance, without
having the slightest ground of defence.
A verdict was given in each case for the plaintiff

CRIMINAL. C_9yß__T_.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT':

Joseph Jones was indicted for forging an order upon
the Bank of England, for the transfer of 3/. 10s. Bank
Stock, the property of George Edwards and his wife, of
Ebury-street, _Pimlico.
Mr. Clarkson was retained for the prosecution ; Mr.
Prendergast defended the prisoner.
George Clifden, one of the Bank clerks, testified to
the stock standing in the name of the prosecutor pre-
vious to the transfer.
Mr. Samuel Stephen Lowe, a clerk in the Long An-
nuities Transfer-office, witnessed the transfer on the sth
of January last.
George Edwards, a retired coachman, of Ebury-street,
Pimlico, deposed that his wife, whose name before her
marriage was Sarah Swift, and himself, purchased the
long annuities in question on the 6th April, 1840. This
stock he had never given authority to any one to dispose
of in any way, and on the production of the Bank book
declared that the signature in it was not his. He denied
that the letter purporting to give the authority, which
was also produced, was his, and said he knew nothing
whatever of the transfer until he heard of it through a
communication from his daughter.
Cross-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—Cannot read
or write. The four first years after their marriage they
had lived together, but since that period they had been
separated, and had not received a letter from her for
more than three ears. He had given his wife the
money from time to time to be taken care of, but what
afterwards became of it he was not able to tell, though
he believed it was to be put into the Bank.
Mr. Thomas Crumpton, a stockbroker—Occasionally
officiated for Mr. Baillie, another stockbroker, who had
an office on the same floor with himself in Lothbury. In
January, 1842, he had transferred 31.105. Long Annuities
for that gentleman, at the desire of a person whom he
believed to be the prisoner. He had sold the stock to
Mr. Clement Smith, a stockbroker, and paid the
money over to the person who represented himself as
George Edwards, the owner.
The Learned JUDGE reproved the witness for his want
of caution in identifying a person at the Bank whom he
had never seen before that time.
Carlton Anthony Goring, now a private in the 31st
Regiment, stated, that in 1842 be was clerk to Mr.
Baillie, whose business Mr. Compton was in the habit
of transacting when he was away from London. He
confirmed Mr. Compton's evidence, and identified the
prisoner, and also the paper which he had produced, as
being Mr. Edwards' authority to her husband to sell
the stock.
Charlotte Arnold identified the writing of the pri-
soner. She had known him as Henry Clark.
Mr. James Hunter of 34, Bloomsbury-street, had
known the prisoner under the name of Henry Hitch-
cock Barrow. The document produced, purporting to
be the authority of Mrs. Edwards, was decidedly the
prisoner's writing.
Mr. George Cowldrey, goldbeater, of Eccleston-
street, Clerkenwell, stated, that he had known Edwards
and his wife, the latter for twenty years. Knew the
prisoner in January 1842. The last time witness saw
him was on his apprehension on the 9th of September
last, when Mrs. Edwards was with him, and they gave
their names as Mr. and Mrs. Jones. lie had seen Mrs.
Edwards in 1845, when he went with her to Mr.
Peppercorn's, a stockbroker, to purchase some
stock ; and, in consequence of what passed
then the Bank porter was sent for, with whom Mrs.
Edwards communicated, and to whom she gave a de-
scription of the prisoner. After that witness and Mrs.
Edwards went to Mr. Baillie's office, and told that gen-
tleman what had passed. Mr. Edwards immediately
afterwards went to the Bank. On the 4th or sth August
he saw her again at his own house, in company with the
prisoner at the bar, when she introduced him as her
husband, under the name of Joseph Jones. Witness
then immediately recognised the prisoner as the man,
who had, some years before, called with a message from.
Mrs. Edwards, and who then represented himself as.
Mr. llandley's servant, of Newark. Some conversed=
then ensued on the prisoner's change of name. At that
time he saw a gold watch in the prisoner's possession,.
which he knew belonged to George Edwards. Mrs..
Edwards at that time told him that her first husband:
had been dead for two years, and showed him a ring on.
her finger, which she said prisoner had put on. He
identified the handwriting of the prisoner. The autho—
rity was then put in and read. •
Mr. PRENDERGAST addressed the jury on behalf of
;he prisoner, who found him Guilty.
He was sentenced to be transported for life.

seventy pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon her
when she was talu-n into custody.

A verdict of guilty having been returned against the
prisoner, she was sentenced to four manths' imprison-
ment.

James Wilson, was indicted for stealing a quantity of
metal piping, the property of Henry Murray, his master.
It appeared that the prosecutor was an extensive
plumber. The prisoner had been his foreman for three
years. On Monday week he was observed by a police-
man to enter the shop of a mark e store dealer several
times with a bundle, and information of the fact having
been conveyed to the prosecutor, it was ascertained that
the prisoner had stolen a quantity of lead, which
he disposed of at
,the shop for about a quarter of its
value.
He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ROB-
BERIES IN BERKSHIRE.
ABINGDON, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The examination 0:
the nitnesecs still continues, but, both yesterday and to-
day, have been partially private, as was that of Mr.
Salisbury, a large maltster and brewer, taken this after-
noon, but of the testimony given in open Court the fol-
lowing is the most importan►. No other person has yet
been arrested, but it is said Superintendent Wyatt has
warrants for the apprehension of several who are impli-
cated by the evidence of the last few days.
William Beeehey—About two years ago I was out of
employ, and remember meeting Thomas Prior, the pri-
soner, on Si. Helen's-wharf. He was boatman for Mr.
Pemberton. He and I had some conversation together.
He told me he bad some malt and hops. He said he
shoved his boat up a back way, pointing towards Abing-
don-bridge, and they got out six sacks of malt and some
hops. One of the men present had a blue coat on, with
pigeon tails, and a bunch of keys on his arm. Prior
said he thought it was the foreman, and said, " Why,
that must be Jones," but he said, he thought
it was Gardener. From the description of the other one,
I thought it must be Edney; and there was another
man, whom -I did not know. Prior said that the man
with the keys showed him about the place. " The
brewery" was mentioned by Prior as the place where
the malt and hops were got from, and by his saying he
shoved his boat back up the water, I thought he must
mean Miss Spenlove's. I understood he was going to
take hie; boat Birmingham way. This transaction
was a common talk about the wharf at the time. I heard
it spoken of twenty times. Prior told me he looked out in
the night, and saw " Old Dusty" trying to take one of
the sacks out of the boat, and he called out to him, " Let
'urn bide," and then " Old Dusty" cut. He soon after
started with his boat. I don't know what Dusty's name
is besides " Charley." (By "Dusty" is meant a man who
has absconded.)
The evidence of another witness proves a loss in Miss
Splenlove's stock before the management was confided to
sir. Marshall.

The interest as to the result of the inquiry daity in-
creases, especially in Oxford, in consequence of the re-
spectability of the alleged receivers in that city.

THE LATE COAL-MINE A.CCI-

DENT AT OLDBU RY.

BIRMINGUAM, TUESDAY EVENING.—The jury before
whom the inquest was held at Dudley on the bodies of
two of tee sufferers, late residents in Worcestershire,
by the coal-mice explosion at Dudley, returned & ver-
dict last evi-ning.of manslaughter against Thomas Harris;
ground bailiff at Newbury pit—a verdict which has ex-
cited the strongest sensation in the district.
The adjourned inquest at Oldbury, in Staffordshire,
was resumed at the Talbot Inn there to-day.
The Coroner, before proceeding with the business,
stated that efforts of a benevolent character had already
been made with a view to. relieve the distress occasioned
by the late accident in the mine.
Charles Kennedy was the first witness examined., He
had worked in the mine two years ago, but left on ac-
count of the sulphur that was in it, which he believed to
have arisen f rota the detective character of the ventila-
tion. The witness, on cross-examination, admitted
that a new gate road had been made since he left,
as :shown in the plan. He had been twice burned in
the pit.
Mr. John Brittle, mining surveyor, Dudley, had exa-
mined the pit with Mr. Yardley and Mr. Silas Elwell,
yesterday, from one- end to the other, and only found
sulphur in one part of it. He attributed the explosion
to the fact that one side of the work was not properly
ventilated. Ile considered the place where the men were
at work sufficiently ventilated. The state of the atmos-
phere affects much the condition of the sulphur in mines.
Tuesday last was a very bad day to work in pits. The
colliers in several pits were at play that day, in cense-
quende of the sulphur in them, engendered by the damp
and foggy atmosphere.
Mr. Yardley and Mr. Elwell gave evidence to the same
effect, both insisting strongly that the state of the atmo-
sphere had much to do in causing the explosion.
The OORGNER then summed up the evidence, and the
jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death ;" but ex-
pressing dissatisfaction with the ventilation of the pit.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH

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WESTERN RAILWAY.--MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVEN
INC—This morning a collision took place on the Man-
chester and Birmingham portion of the London and
North-western Railway, at Stockport, of a serious cha-
racter, but fortunately attended with no loss of lite.
The forty minutes past nine o'clock train, which left
Manchester this morning for London, had just passed
over the lofty viaduct which crosses the Mersey at
Stockport, about seven minutes to ten o'clock, when the
engine came in collision with a coal train, one of Lord
Vernon's, which had passed the shunts to get upon the
London (or up line), about nine minutes to ten o'clock,
when the Superintendent of the Stockporte station stopped
it, and told the engineer that the train from Manchester
was due in a minute or two, and advised him to back

upon the down iine until it had passed. The engineer
had proceeded to do /0, and the whole of the carriages
had cleared the up-line, when the passenger train ar-
rived, and came in collision with the tender and engine.
The collision was dreadful, causing the engines of the
two traps to rear up almost on end, and fall off the line.
The front of one engine and the rear of the other were
broken badly, and one of the buffers of each were broken
off. The tenders were also considerably damaged. Se-
veral of the passengers were severely bruised and in-
jured, and one had three teeth broken. They were all
conveyed to the Stockport Infirmary,' a very short dis-
tance from the spot, and had their wounds attended to.
Four of them were able to proceed by the train, which
was not, however, in motion till about one o'clock, having
been detained three hours. The shunts at which the
accident occurred
.was: only seventy yards from the
Stockport station, where the passenger train was to stop,
and it appears the engineer was to blame in not having
slackened bis speed sooner. Indeed, the signal was up
for him to stop before arriving at the station, which he
ought to ,have seen at nearly a mile distance. The en-
gineer and guard of the coal train had both jumped oft
their engine before the collision, and escaped unhurt.
Charles Win.terbottom, the driver of the passenger train,
jumped off, and had his ankle sprained, and John Fox,
the stoker, had his foot caught between the engine and
tender, and slightly hurt.
DARING PLATE- ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the
Greenwich Police Court. an elderly man of shabby-
genteel appearance, who gave the name of John Jackson,
and a young man similarly attired, named Thomas
Thorpe, were brought up on remand, charged with rob-
bing the house of Mr. William Hall, a merchant, of
Wood-street, Cheapside, whose country residence is at
Catford Bridge, near Sydenham, of a silver cruet stand,
gold cayenne spoon, silver salt spoons, and a number of
table spoons, value upwards of 201. Ann Ward, house-
maid in the prosecutor's family, stated that on Thursday
last she was directed to lay the cloth in the dining
room, the window of which was partially open, and is
situated about twenty yards from the high road. She
did so, leaving the articles above enumerated on the
table, from which they were missed a short time after.
The article:: were missed about two o'clock. Police
constable Carpenter, of the detective force, stated
that on Thursday last he was on Blackheath
about two o'clock, when he observed the prisoners'
near the upper gate of Greenwich Park. He
saw the prisoner Thorpe pass a bundle or parcel to
the hands of Jackson, who deliberately walked away,
and, suspecting there was something wrong in the trans-
action, he went up to the former, and asked him what he
was doing there, and what he had in his possession.
Thorpe drew a packet of black lead from his pocket,
which he said he was in the habit of selling. Witness
then asked him what was contained in the parcel he had
given to the other paisoner. Thorpe replied he knew
nothing of the parcel nor the other man. He then left
Thorpe and hastened after the prisoner Jackson, who,
upon observing him, ran away, and he ran after him.
On the -way he saw Jackson endeavour to throw' the
bundle over the park wall into the garden of Mr. Ky-
naston, of Crootn's-hill, but which fell short. He picked
up the parcel containing part of the property, and with
the assistance of other persons who ran to his aid, se-
cured the prisoner. Lie gave Jackson into the custody
of another constable, and then went in search of Thorpe,
whom lie subsequently apprehended. The prisoners
were committed for trial.
ACCENTS YESTERDAY.—Emily White, aged 18
months, whose parents reside at No. 12, Bermondsey-
street, Southwark, had been placed in a chair by its
mother, and during her temporary absence a saucepan
of boiling water fell from the fire over her face, arms,
and neck, whereby she was frightfully scalded. She
was remored to Guy's Hospital, whither she was con-
veyed in a blanket, in dreadful agony: and Rebecca
North, aged five years, residing at No. 1, Grange-
walk, Bermondsey, whilst standing on the fender, set
fire to her clothes, and, before the flames were extin-
guished, she was shockingly burned. She was taken to
the same hospital. Slight hopes are entertained of the
recovery of either.
PEACE VERSUS WAR.—A very large meeting was
held at the Hall of Commerce, in Threadneedly-street,
on Tuesday night, for the purpose of hearing Elihtt
Burritt, " the learned American blacksmith," deliver a
lecture of the abrogation of war, and the establishment
of universal and inviolable peace all over the world. At
eight o'clock, the hall, to which there was free admission,
was crowded in every part by a very respectable audience,
of whom a large number belonged to the " Society of
Friends." Immediately after that hour Elihu Burritt
commetced his lecture and continued it without inter-
mission for nearly two hours. " The learned black-
smith" seems like one who has laboured rather in the
study than in the smithy, and does not exhibit much of
the rolonst physique of the forge. His features are
strongly markt d, though of a mild and rather intellec-
tual expression, and his delivery is characterised by
the slow oracular kind of pronunciation which is attri-
buted to our transatlantic brethren. For nearly two
hours, with a strong, rough, but monotonous, and not
very distinct voice, did the lecturer declaim on the misery
and sinfulness of war; its opposition to the precepts of
the Scriptures, and its violation of all the softer feelings
of humaility, aiding his memory from time to time
with yen/ copious nutes. His argument was founded on.
the preaching and practice of our Saviour, and he con-
tended that undfa no possible circumstances could Chris-
tians just ify an appeal to arms. Towards the close of
the proceedings he was highly applauded, and the thanks
of the meeting were given him by acclamation, and
long-eontimied and vehement applaUS.
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gentlaman who was at a short distance, when, with his
assistance, she was drawn to the side. The Humane
Society's men then came up and took her to the receiv-
ing house. She appeared quite dead, but we have since
learnt het animation was restored.