The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1858.

FOREIGN.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-( THIS DA Y.)

Share! Railways.

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ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
IN RE THE HAMPSTEAD RAILWAY COMPANY-PETITION

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FOR JUDGMENT.

His Honour, the Master-of the Rolls, in delivering judg-
ment, said—l have taken time to consider this case, and on
reading over carefully the evidence laid before me, I am of
opinion that the value of the park taken by the company
must be taken as property in possession. I fully admit the
principle of those cases referred to in the arguments,—that
where there is a reversion taken by a company the person
entitled to take the reversion would only be entitled to take
so much as would fairly correspond to the value given.
They would be entitled to receive that as full
compensation of the value of the property taken
at the time. It -would be the full and absolute
value of the property taken, but this is not a case of that
description. I have now looked through the evidence
and examined the agreement that wax, entered into, and I
find that the preperty taken by the company was let out
for building purposes on building leases, and therefore it
must be treated as the property of a party in possession,
and that the Dean and Chapter of Westminster is entitled
to the dividends or value of the property taken as parties in
possession. I have looked into all the cases on the subject,
and I do not think they are of a different description from
the case I have stated.

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Judgment in favour of the Dean and Chapter of West.
minter,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

IN RE TILE PLUMSTEAD, &C., PURE WATER COMPANY.
To-day was appointed for hearing a petition to wind up
the affairs of this company, but the solicitor to the petition
said he was not in a position to proceed, as there was an-
other petition in Chancery, and it was therefore desirable
that the hearing should be adjourned without a day, with
liberty to apply when prepared.
The application was granted.

The petition was very lengthy, but, as the merits were
not gone into, publication of the charges would be prema-
ture.

THE NATIONAL DEODORISING COMPANY.

An audit meeting was held in this case. The assets were
only £l7O, and the costs of the official liquidation
His Honour remarked on the expenses of so small an
estate, but ultimately the'accounts were passed.

The learned Judge having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter."

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

and Crown on the 15th September. I saw the deceased
come in. She remained there about an hour and ten
minutes. I saw the prisoner there. When she left she
was not drunk. She and two of us had three pots of beer.
lam sure she had nothing else. When she left lam sure

she was sober.
Examined by Mr. Sleigh—l knew the deceased. She had

not been in that public-house since the 30th of March.

By Barod Bramwell—She did not drink the same quan-
tity of beer as the men. She only took a sup now and
then.

The magistrate's clerk said—l accompanied Mr. Paynter
to the hospital on the 16th. I took down the words of the
deceased. She said, " I don't know how I got hurt. I
think I got out of the window. Pray don't hurt him. His
mother has been here and told me he is nearly out of his
mind."

The surgeon of the Westminster Hospital described the
injuries sustained by the deceased. When the unfortunate
woman was in the hospital on the 18th she said she thought
she had got out of window. She afterwards said, " Isaac
Bandy pushed me out; I know it was him. Before he
pushed me out he struck me on the head with a poker. I
think I opened the window to call out." The woman was
perfectly conscious that she was dying.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—Whenever the deceased
was left alone for any short time after her admission to the
hospital to the time of her death, she relapsed into a state
of stupor.
By Baron Bramwell—l think the deceased was perfectly
conscious when she made the statement I have alluded to.
Mrs. Heath said—The deceased was my daughter. When
I saw her in the hospital she was perfectly sensible, and
she thought she would never recover. On the Sunday
previous to her death she told me the prisoner struck her
on the head twice with the poker.

The police-constable who took the prisoner into custody,
said, when he did so, Harmond said, " It's a serious job,
and I must suffer for it."

George Winstone—l am a shoemaker. I live in New
Tothill-street. On the day following the occurrence I was in
Rochester-row police cell on suspicion of being a deserter.
The matter was investigated, and I was discharged. While
I was in the cell the prisoner was brought there. In a few
minutes afterwards Harmond asked what I was there for,
and I told him on suspicion of enlisting for a soldier. I
asked him what he was in for, and he said, "Mine is a
much more serious offence, and I expect it'll turn out a bad
job." I asked him what it might be. He replied, "Have
you net heard yet ?" I said, " No, I was locked
up all last night." He said, " What I not about the
woman that was thrown out of the window." He then
said, " I had been out working for my living ; when
I returned home I found my wife was out. I
went to look after her, and I found her drunk.
I remonstrated with her for being drunk, and then we had
some words together, and she called me a foul name. This
exasperated me, so that I hit her upen the head with a
poker. I locked the door and put the key in my pocket.
The window was up, it being warm weather, and the bed-
stead, which was a French one, reached within three
inches and a half of the window sill. She flew to this win-
dow, and called out Murder !' and Police 1' I was
exasperated at that, and gave her a push. She being a
weighty woman, out she went. (Sensation in court.) I
had no intention of throwing her out—it was the spirit of
the moment." The police came to the cell and took the pri-
soner out, and he was away about an hour. On his return
he said, " I have been to Westminster Hospital to hear my
wife's deposition taken," and then repeated a great many
of the facts that have been given in evidence.
Mr. Sleigh then subjected this witness to a severe cross-
examination, during which he elicited that eight years ago
he had been in custody on a charge of felony.

Baron Bramwell—When a man has been convicted of a
crime, and for eight years afterwards has conducted him-
self in a proper and respectable manner, I think it quite
sufficient to guarantee him a character for trustworthiness.
If the learned counsel does not intend to go to the jury
upon the point of disbelief of the witness, I think that to
rake up matters which had taken place eight years ago is
a great and needless cruelty. (Cries of " Bravo," which
were instantly repressed by the officers of the court.)
Mr. Sleigh—l consider I have a right to make the in-
quiries I have done. It is not in my instructions to throw
any discredit on the witness's testimony. The learned
gentleman then, in a very able speech, proceeded to address
the jury on behalf of the prisoner, strongly pointing out the
doubtful nature of the prisoner's intention.

The learned judge then sentenced him to penal servitude
for life.