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London, England, 1860-03-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Justices.)
ASPINAL Y. LONDON ANDNORTR-WESTERN RAILWAY

COMPAN'--APPEAL.

This was an appeal from a decree of Vice-Chancellor
Sir William Page Wood. he contention was whether
the appellant's representatile of the late Mr. Aspinal,
railway contractor, assignee o Messrs. Sharp and Welsh,
railway pontractors, were entiled to claim under the ori-
ginal contract with this connany the expense and extra
cost of making a branch line o railway for the company at
Cooper's-bridge, Huddersfield.

Lord Justice Turner, and lord Justice Knight Bruce
were of opinion that the appellant was entitled to the dif-
ference of the expense of the wark certified as previously
executed by Messrs. Sharp and Welsh, and the money re-
ceived by them for the execution of ouch work. And de-
creed accordingly, without costs to tither party, except
costs of the original hearing in 1553, any such costs of the
items as are specified in the order on farther directions
which are directed by that order to be pal to the plaintiff,
Mr. Hardy's client will also have his coats.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(2Isis Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREP7'

tiTaI6RDINARY OSSIL—ROIIII4O' hitgicAN
GENTLEMAN.—John Connolly, a violin player, wa►charga►j
with stealing a gold watch, of the value of £lO, tte pr
petty of an American gentleman, named John verve
Stinson, of 13, Alfred-place, Store-street.
Mr. Stinson said—l went into a night house, the Kiag's
Head, Crown-street, about one this morning, and expovd
my watch, and the prisoner snapped it off and took it. I
was sober.

Millord, 80, said the prosecutor was not sober when he
took the prisoner at four o'clock.

Mr. Stinson—The constable was more drunk than I was.
Mr. Beadon—l've great doubts about that.
Mr. Stinson—He took my watch and went through a
little door, having handed the watch over the partition.
The Chief Clerk—Why did you not give the prisoner
into custody before four o'clock ?

Mr. Stinson—l don't think it's disreputable to be out at
that time.

Mr. Beadon, to the prosecutor—Why do you not answer
the question ?

Mr. Stinson—Well, he snapped it off like he might yours.
If you don't believe Inc you can have my address. I had
been knocking about for some time. The only thing Mr.
Bingham—.

Mr. Beadon—My name is not Bingham.
Mr. Stinson—l've lost my watch and I don't care much
about it. Did not you take it (addressing the prisoner).
The man is a coward and a perfect thief. I'm living on
my income.

Chief Clerk—You are a gentlemen, then.
Mr. Stinson—l'm hardly a gentleman, but I guess I am.
lam from Canada. Well, you can call me a gentleman.
My watch cost 123 American dollars. I told the man that
I did net wish to make a fuss.

Mullord, 80 C, said—l took the prisoner into custody.
He said ho had not get the watch, but if he was not
charged, he could get it, as he knew the person who had
it. He afterwards said he would rather suffer 10 years
than tell who had it. Tho prisoner had been charged with
a street robbery with violence.

In answer to Mr. Beadon, the prisoner said his real name
was Maddigan, and ho wished to know whether the gentle-
man had not "boxed with some of the persons in the
house f"

Mr. Stinson—Oh yes. I box with anybody.
The depositions having been read over, the prisoner was
committed for trial.

THAMES.

STREET ROBBERY.—EIiza Ware, a bloated-looking
woman, aged 35, and notorious for her disorderly conduct,
was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a
purse containing 9s. from the person of Mr. William 'West-
mont, a sawyer, of No. 17, Samuel. street, Limekouse-fields.
The prosecutor was on his way home at a late hour
last night, and was accosted by the prisoner, who
asked him to treat hor with liquor, which ho refused
to do, and endeavoured to get rid of her. She continued,
however, to walk alongside of him, until she found an op-
portunity of putting her hand in his pocket and abstracting
from it a purse containing 7e. and a florin, with which she
ran away. She was pursued and overtaken. In the course
of her flight she threw away the purse and money. A
police constable, No. 416 K, afterwards recovered both.
She pleaded guilty, and said she had a little baby to
maintain, and it was very ill. _ _

Mr. Yardley—These street robberies by women are very
frequent indeed, and I cannot pass over this offence.
Tho prisoner—Oh, pray do, sir. I will never come here
agail.

Mr. Yardley—l cannot pass it over, indeed. You have
committed a most impudent robbery. I sentence you to
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three calendar
months.

The new buildings connected with the Arm-
strong gun factory department at the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, are so far completed as to admit of the employ-
ment of upwards of 2,600 artisans and labourers, being
treble the number employed at the royal gun factories at
the corresponding period of last year. Arrangements are
now being carried out, under the direction of Mr.
John Anderson, superintendent of the depart-
ment, to commence the manufacture of a number of
100-pounder rifled ordnance, for which purpose one of
Nasinyth's steam hammers of the enormous weight of 20
tons, recently erected, will be brought into requisition. In
accordance with Admiralty instructions, a large number of
artizans and labourers employed at the dockyard and steam
factory department have received the usual notice of dis-
charge, the new vessels now in hand being in a forward
state. The men not on the establishment list will bo dis-
charged at the rate of 50 per week.
EXTRAORDINARY BEQUESTIC—There has just
been gathered to her fathers Agnes Hamilton, grocer, Com-
mercial-road, Glasgow, an old miserly woman, at the ago
of 81, and who has left £23,000 of her savings from a small
shop which she had rented for about 40 years. She was in
every respect a miser, but she was a miser-merchant, who
looked after the pence par excellence, and also after the
pounds. She was never married, and studiously avoided
parting with a single farthing that she could avoid. In
this way, and by dint of half starvation, she succeeded in
realising the above large sum, which she has bequeathed in
£4 annuities to destitute people of good moral character who
are natives of, and have lived in, the Gorbals parish of Glas-
gow 40 yearn, and who have attained the age of 65. As
the parish is small very few qualified claimants exist or can
exist, She has left nothing to any of her relations.

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

Latest advices from the seat of war in Africa,
received via Gibraltar by the Delta steamer, arrived
at Southampton, state that there is nothing new
to report. The arrivals from the coast represent that
the greatest exertions were being made, notwith-
standing th 6 bad weather, to discharge the shot,
shell, pr visions, forage, &c., limn the numerous
transports lying off El Martin. The preparations
is Progress for some great blow was draccing to a
close. Upwards of 600 beasts of burden, including
-100 camels from Oran, had already been disem-
barked. The tramway from the beach to the town
of Tetuan was. nearly finished. It is stated that the
interviews between Marshal O'Donnell and the
Moorish envoys continue ; but that they do not in-
terrupt the military prepa:•ations, which are being
carried on with the utmost activity.
We (the Gibraltar Chronicle) have been favoured
with the perusal of a letter addressed to a Moorish
merchant in this tawn by one of his coreligionists
at Tangier, in which the following version is given
of the action fought on the 11th inst. between the
Spanish and Moorish forces :

" We have at last been relieved of a little of the
monotony which, owing to the inaction of the belli-
gerents, has for some weeks past characterised this
war. Tired of waiting for O'Donnell's long-expected
march upon this place, a Moorish force, consisting of
1,800 foot and 300 horse, attacked on the morning
of Sunday last, the 11th inst., a division of the
Spanish army at the latter's encampment outside
the walls of Tetuan and on the Tangier-road. A
sharp engagement followed, in which the Moorish
cavalry are reported to have particularly distin-
guished themselves by charging the enemy re-
peatedly and cutting him up very much. A strong
detachment of Spaniards, which was brought up in
the course of the afternoon from the plain of Mar-
tin, and moved along the heights of Gebel Dersa,
prevented the assailants from doing more than kil-
ling or unending some 200 or 300 of the enemy.
sustaining a trifling loss themselves. I have not
heard what the casualties on the part of the Moor-
ish infantry amounted to, but I am told the cavalry
lost seven men killed and about 20 wounded. The
two Kaids who led the troops on fell gallantly
fighting inside the Spanish camp. The conflict
lasted till nightfall, when, as if by mutual accord,
the contending parties separated."
The Egyptian steamship Persian, from off the
Tetuan River, arrived at Gibraltar on the evening
of the 16th, taking the itews that preliminaries of
peace, the nature of which was only known to the
parties present at the meeting, had been arranged
in the morning between Muley Abbas and Marshal
O'Donnell. Immediately after the interview a
steamer was ordered to be got ready to convey an
officer of rank intrusted with despatches for the
Spanish Government, and in a very short time the
vessel was on her way to Alicante, whence the
envoy would proceed to Madrid by railway. At
the head-quarters of the Spanish army, in the
camp and throughout the town, nothing but this
affair was talked of, and every one seemed impa-
tient to learn the conditions on which the peace
has been made, many wishing that they may
be ratified and others hoping for the continuance
of the war. The Persian had been engaged by
the Spanish Government to convey a cargo
of hay and potatoes from Marseilles to the port of
Tetuan, and it was only within the last few days,
owing to the prevalence of unfavourable weather,
that she could unload her cargo. From Gibraltar
the Persian, after coaling, was ordered to proceed
to Djiddah via the Cape of Goad Hone, to be en►
gaged in the conveyance of passengers and goods
between the ports in the Red Sea and Suez.

MI?. HOI?SMAN AND HIS CONSTI-

TUENTS.

STROUD, TUESDAY.

A crowded and influential meeting of Liberal
electors of this borough was held in the Subscrip-
tion Rooms in this town this morning, " to consider
the course of their representative, the Right Hon.
E. Horsman, in Parliament during the present
session." The attendance included the leading men
of all sections of Liberals. The meeting was called
in consequence of the strong general feeling that
Mr. Horsman has not represented the opinions of
the borough in Parliament.
Mr. S. S. MARLING, manufacturer, occupied the
chair. Ile read an invitation ho had given to Mr.
Horsman to be present at that meeting, and Mr.
Horsmau's reply, declining, lie remarked that
there was an almost universal feeling of dissatisfac-
tion with the course which Mr. Horsman had pur-
sued upon the budget and the treaty, and as Mr.
Aorsman had always evinced an anxiety to know
tie feelings and opinions of his constituents, they
hat, assembled openly to express them. He did
not accuse Mr. Horsman of having violated any
Pio:4es, but he was elected to be a supporter of the
preselt. Liberal Government, and instead of having
done so, he had sought to weaken and impair their
efficiency, He hoped the business of the meeting
would be confined to the purpose for which it was
called, and, that if any ulterior steps were to be
taken they should not be commenced at that meet-
ing.

Mr• A. M. FLINT, manufacturer, proposed the
following resolstion :—" That it is the opinion of
this meeting that the Right Hon. E. Horsman has
not, by his votes or speeches in the House of Com-
mons in reference to the commercial treaty with
France and the budget, represented the opi-
nions and feelings of the borough •f Stroud."
(Cheers.) As the proposer of Mr. Horsman at the
last election, he explained that while that gentle-
man was up to that time a consistent Liberal, he
had since thought proper to pursue a course with
which his coistituents could not concur.

The resolution was seconded by D. Itic.timo,
Esq., of Gatcombe Park, and supported by Mr.
SAMUEL BOWLY, who remarked that not long ago
in that room Mr. Horsman had defended every in-
dividual act of Lord Palmerston in his foreign
policy, but now that that policy had become more
enlightened, Mr. Horsman opposed it in every pos-
sible way.

Mr. W. .1. STANTON defended Mr. Horsman, but
expressed his general disagreement with the hon
gentleman's course.

Mr. A. It. FEWsTER also supported the resolu-
tion, which was then put, and carried with only
four dissentients.

Mr. M. BRIDGES, as an advanced Liberal, and
thinking the last resolution did not go far enough,
proposed :—" That the Liberal electors of the
borough of Stroud, in public meeting assembled,
having witnessed with surprise and regret the
course of parliamentary conduct recently pursued
by the Right Hon. E. Horsman, more especially
during the present session, hereby declare that he
has lost all claim to our future confidence and sup-
port." (Loud cheers.) He expressed the entire
disapprobation felt by the advanced Liberals at
Mr. Horsman's conduct, and said that as they had
come there to do something they should respect-
fully call upon the hon. gentleman to resign.
(Loud cheers.)
The resolution having been seconded,
Mr. WINTERBOTHAM (magistrate) deprecated it,
both because they had not heard Mr. Horstnan,
and because the present Parliament must necessa-
rily soon be dissolved.
Mr. LIBRE spoke at some length in favour of the
resolution.

Mr. BRIDGES said that as there was little diffe-
rence of opinion, and his object had been gained, he
would withdraw his resolution to ensure unani-
mity.

The usual votes of thanks concluded the pro-
ceedings. _ _

All the officers on leave of absence, except. those
on sick leave, and who belong to the regiments
selected to form the camps of Chalons, Luneville,
and Helfaut, near St. Omer, have received orders
to forthwith join their respective corps.
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