The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

LAW INTEL oragNICE.--Ma 1.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(S'ttings at Nisi. Prius in Middlesex.—Before Mr

Baron Wagon and Common Julie 3.)

BRIGHT V. PEAT .—BETTING TRANSACTIONS.
This was an a-tion br,u4t,t to reccv:r 31/. 10s.
6d., money p3i.i by ti, e phintiff to the defend int's
use. The defendant pie idecl never irfd..3l)tccl, except
as to the sum of 51., which Sum he paid into c
Mr. Edwin Jamee and Mr. Henry James appea-ed
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Grif-
fiths for the defendant.
The plaintiff was formerly extensively engaged in
the shipping trade in America and India, bat at
the present time was following no occupaion, but
was itrgelY engaged on the turf. The defendant
was a saddler in Bond-street. The plaintiff's case
was that he had paid the amount sou ;lit to be r'-
covered at the tequi-s, of the defendant, and on 11;s
account, for bets to the races for the Chester Cup,
G.)od wood Stakes, and others. He had applied to
the defendant, by letter, fir payment, but had re-
ceived no answer, and he then accordingly brought
the present action.
.

The defenclsnt was called, and he said that be
first became acquainted with the pla;ntiff by seeing
him at race 3, and he had some betting transactions
wth him. Witness was not at the Chester races in
1854, but be was at the Go dwood races in the same
ea-. Bef ra that he had made Lets with the plain-
tiff, and he also gave him money to lay out in bets
for him, but be gave the plaintiff no authority to
make bets for him without having given him the
money prevlottsly. On one occasion he asked the
plaintiff f,r a loan of 5/. to enable him to get home,
which he lent him, and that was the sum which had
been paid into court. The plaintiff did not t ell him
when he left Lim the 51. that that would make
231. which he owed him, nor anything to that
effect. He never gave him any authority to make
bits for him on the Northamptonshire Stakes race.
He made another bet with the plaintiff upon the
Bath and Somerset Stakes in 1855, but he gave
bim no authority to make any other bets upon that
race. The betting transactions were all between
him and the plaintiff. He never gave the plaintiff
any authority to make bets, without he gave the
money beforehand.
Cross-examined—He did not know how much
money ho owed the plaintiff. He destroyed all the
documents he had, including his memorandum-
book, and everything. He could not say within
501. how much he owed the-plaintiff, nor could he
say that he owed him anything. He could not say
that he did not owe him 1141. Upon the Chester
Cup race he gave the plaintiff 201. to back Virago.
He was a defaulter on the turf about two years ago,
and was at the present time fa. about 4001. or 5001.
His creditors at the present time were carrying on
his busin s.

, Mr. Baron Watson left it to the jury to say whe-
ther the defendant had given the pla,ntiff any au-
thority to make bets him. If he had, the plain-
t;ff was enttled t.) the verdict, and they would
Lava to ray fcr hov 1111.101.
The jury gave a verdict to the plaintiff for the.
fu'l amount claimed, 311. 10s. 6d., inclusive of the
sum paid int') court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 1.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Francis John Maybury,
Robert Collins, George Pickering, George Boyce,
Den's M'Ca.rthy, and George Reynolds, charged
upon suspicion of baying been concerned in steal-
ing the contents of 15 large trunks of boots and
shres which had been consigned by Mr. Lewis
Isenberg, of Leadenhall-street, to a firm in Mel-
-bourne, were finally examined before the Lord
May
It will be recollected that at the former emirs:-
nations evidence W2B adducei to t;'e effect th tt in
the mouths of Februtry, March, and June last, the ,
trunks c'onta'ning the property were entruste 1 to
Maybury, who is a carman, for delivery at St.
Katharine Docks.- It appeared, however, that as
soon as he gi t thrm into his possession be took
them to a court in the Comtnermal-road, where their
contents were exchanged I.r s'ones, ashes, and
other rubbish, and the lids were nailed down, and
it appeared also that in that s ate they were taken
by Maybury to St. Katherire Docks and shippt d
fur Melbourne, where the fraud was first discovered.
Evidence had bean likewise brought forward in the
statements of a man named Desmond, who acknow-
ledged that he had been engaged for a long t me
past in systematically r .lolying his late employer.,
Messrs. Mrses and Son, of Tower-hid, as well as
concerned in the recent robbery.
Mr. Lewis again appeo.rel for the prosecution ;
Mr. Humphries for IVlaybury ; and Mr. Sleigh, of
the bar, for Boyce and Pickering.
lqr. Lewis said he had no evince to add to that
wh'eh Lad been already given.
The Lord Mayor stated that baying given the
strictest at' eiitioo to the while of the evidence, he
had c mae to the ccnclu-ion that he would not be
justi9ed, under all the circumstances, in commiting
for trial i,ny cf the prisoners, with the exception of
Maybury, the carmen, to whom the property had
been entrusted. His lordship then discharged Col-
lins, Pickering, Boyce, M`Carthy, and Reynolds,
and said he was det-tmine I to • end Maybury to
the Cen'rai Criminal Court for trial upon tie charge
of st-aling the goods.

His loidsbipaccPpted bail for the appearance of
Mayb::ry in the sum of 4001, viz., 20j/. in the per-
son cf the prisoner IlinvelF, and 2JOI. in the person
of tie prioncy's fat!

Mlybary said tl his lordship—l am not gulty
of this e!icr-e. Th 3 evict !IWO is such as cannot be
relied on, and I hope you will not th'ilk it nigh; to
ni me to be tried upon such teitim,ny. •

GUILDHALL—EI z 4Let'l Brett, the wife of a
constable in the City lace force, wai chtrged with
stealing plat 3 and weir:ng apparel to the value
of about 201., from Mr. Staniland, solicaor, of 22,
Bouverie-street, Free'-street.
Mr. Standand salt]. the 1)1 isorer bad been his
bousekeep r, and as she was the wife of a police-
liar) he had unlimited confidence in her. On Wed-
tte,day h wc-vr, she abseil-Ide], and then he
dit.c )vered that all the plate front the chiffonnie:e,
uf which kept thi key, hd I een abstracted, and
the wowing avpart 1, as well ast ruin a•;d bed limn,
hal di3appeved frrm the drawers in that part
tl e house which was furnished for his own occa-
sional occupation. The prison it was allowed seve-
ral room, coals, candles, and 7s. per week.
Sevtral pawnt,rokerN' assistants hawing produced
Mr. Stainland's property, which had been pleclgt.d
by the ptisoner,
Sir J. Musgrove expressed some surpri.e as to
what could have been the prisoner's motive.
Green said he had heard that she had a child not
belonging toiler husband that she lud to provide for.
The pi-la:Ater, who defied any one t 3 find out how
she had spent the money, was then c3mmitted for

WORSHIP- ST REE T. —Em m a Eyres, otherwise
Spinks, a young person respectably attired in mourn-
ing, was brought up on the following charge :
h.. Shorter, ass's ant clerk to thR trustees of the
Hackney Union, gat d that towards the latter part
el the last month tl.e prisoner was sumnrqily con-
victed at this court upon a charge of felony, and
sentenced to three months imprisonment. About a
fortnight after h. r eommitt '1 her illegitimate chill
was admittel into the worklE:ause on the applica-
-tion of her si-..ter, who was unable to support it, and
witee-s was instructed to communicate with t':e
pr:s.ner at the Westminster Bridewell to obtain in-
formation with regard to her Est ttlement. \ At the
gaol he was introduced to a woman who answered
to the name of Emma Eyres, and alleged that s':e
bad committed the robbery imputed to the latter,
but she displayed such profound i;norance re,pect-
ing her antecedents that an investigation was insti
tuterl, and it appeared that while in custody at
Worship-street on the 25th ult., under a sentence
of seven days' imprisonment for disorderly conduct,
the prisoner Eyres was locked up in the same cell
with a woman named Matthews, and that they
agreed to effect an exchange of their respeJtive
terms of punishment by personating each other
on their ariival at Westminster Bridewell, and
at the_ expiration of seven "days the woman Eyres
was discharged in her assumed native, while she
(Matthews) remained to under go the ful
term of three months, allotted to the other. The
woman added that she was far advanced ;n preg-
nancy at the time, and although the prisoner was
previons'y a stranger to her she " jumped at the
proposal," in order to secure better medical and
other aid than she had a chance of finding at her
own miserable home.
The prisoner, who had eluded pursuit until the
previous night,
and now appeared to regard the
whole affair as an excellent practical joke, was re-
committed to the House of Correction for the cum.
pletion of her original sentence, with ian utimati n
guilty indictable
of a selious
that she had been
offence, for which she would probably hereafter be
severely dealt with.

WESTMINSTER.—Thos. Robinl, a gentle-
man's servant, was charged with stealing plate
from his master's house.
Mr. Scrivener, a silversmith, in Princes-street,
Westminster, said that the previous evening, the
prisoner
brought a slyer muflineer and offered it
for sale. He asked him where he got it from, when
he replied that it was his own, adding that he had
had it for years, but owing to reverse of fortune,
was now ob'iged to part with it. Observing that it
was very richly chased, and that the prisoner had
the appearance of being a gentleman's set Vent,
witness told him that he, suspected it Lelongel to
some family with whom he was living, and he

B'l°lll d therefore (Lt ain it and give him int i custo ly.
A peiceman w,ts then sent fir, yaw), upon selrch
irg the accused, another slyer inuffineer was found
upon him. lie then atirdtted that Le was in service
and had stolen the plate.

Payntt-r—ls there any one here from the
honse who can state what plate is ?
Ingpector Humphreys—No, sir, the wtole of the
family are oat cf town. We have written to pri-
soner's mater, who is in Northamponshire, but
there has not been time enough to receive an answer
yet.
Mr. Riynter—Was there any butler kept in the
family?
It spec'or Humphreys—No, sir ; the prisoner had
charge of the plate as footman. We are unable, from
the absence of the family from London, to ascer-
taiTi to whit extent the prisoner has robbed them.
Prisoner hung down h's head and made no an-
swer to the charge.
He was nmanded until a communication should
be received from his master.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.".-Thomas Dicken-
son, gentleman, and Henry Lowe, gent'eman, were
charged with knocking at the doors of several
houses in Carlton-place.
Police-constable Bradley, C 182, heard vio'ent
knockings at some doers on his beat, and on going
to the place ft:ind the defendant Dckenson sur-
rounded by several persons, and drunk. He took
him into. custody, and was vielcntly assaulted by
him. On the way to the station-house the defen-
dant Lowe came up, and offered 10/. for the rd..
lease of his friend. He refused, and Lowe then
attempted a rescue, and was also taken info cus-
tody.
Mr. Bingham fined Dickenson 40s. and Lowe Ds.
The money was paid.

HAMMERSMITH.—Alexander George Wood,
a very respectably-dressed young man, 21 years of
age, described as a druggist, but now an omnibus
conductor, was brought before Mr. Dayman for
further examination, on a charge of intermarrying
with a young woman, named Seward, his former
wife still being alive.
The prisoner was given into custoly by the se-
cond wife.'s sister, a married woman, named Owens,
of Albion-gardens, Hammersmith. Her sister was
in service, and a few days since she gave warning,
and upon being questioned as to the reason, she said
she was going to settle in life, and that she was en-
gaged to be married to the prisoner. Her master
was aware of the prisoner being a married man,
and told her so, but to the astonishment °Fall she
stated that she was already married to the pri-
soner, the ceremony having taken place at St.
George's Church, Bloomsbury, in February last.
The first wife was traced our, and she was dis-
coveted in the service of a gentleman's family, at
Denmark-hill, Camberwell, as wet-nurse. When
the prisoner was taken into custody, he said he did
not consider that his first marriage was legal, as he
was not eighteen years of age when it took place.
He also said the marriage took place in a private
room, and not in a church.
Police-cons'able Sharp, of the T division, said
he had seen the young woman who was represented
to be the first wif., and she could not attend for
fear of losing her situation. She told him that she
wag married to the prisoner in Cantet bury, on the
27th of March, 1855, by the Rev. Mr. Nutt. They
were to have been married in S'. George's Church,
Canterbury, but in consequence cf being too late
for the train they could not reach there in time ;
but that they were afterwards married in the Rev.
Mr. Nut's drawing-room. She had two chi'dren
by the prisoner, and sho had to pay Ns. per week
for them while she was in service.

Mr. Dayman said if the marriage took place in
the drawing-no:1i without a special license, then it
would not be valid. He must have some evidence
of the first ma-riage, and he should advise Mrs.
Owens to write to the rector of St. George's, Can-
terbury, for the desired information.
The prisoner was then again remanded for that
purpose.

ACCIDENT ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE

RAIL TrA Y.

Yesterday an accident occurred by which several
persons traveling by one of the up-Crystal Palace
trains were injured.
It appears that a train consisting only of nino
carriages had arrived within a short distance of the
London-bridge terminus, when in passing over the
points facing St. Thomas's-street, the break jumped
and fell over th 3 metals out to the permanent way,
dragging with it a third-cla-,s carnage, containing
fortunately only five persons. The weight of Vie
truck pulled the carriage on its side, throwing
thee passengers about in sad confusion, and the car-
riage, and also th 3 break, were broke❑ into several
p'ec?s, and the passengers thrown acr_ss the line.
Before they could bo extricated or the momentum
of the train s'opped, Vie wheels of 000 of the
hindermost carriages passed over two gentlemen,
inflicting serious injuries. Several officials of the
company, as well as Mr. Inspector Reid, were
prompty in attendance, and exerted themselves in
a praiseworthy manner in removing the tvoundei.
It was then found hat the five passengers were all
injured more or less—two, named respectively
Alfred Williams, of Cockburn-terrace, Peckham, and
Joseph Gann, of 2, Wcod's-row, Peckham, :so
ha fly, that it was found necessary to remove them,
one to St. Thomas's and the othar t) Guy's Hospital.
The latter gentleman, who was clerk to Beedi,
Croft, and hal his.arm broken, the blade-bone
of one of his should-rs splintered, mid his left side
' lacerate 1. The other gentleman, it is feared, has
received serious injury to the spi•tw. Both suf-
ferers were placed in beds in the hospitals, but their
injuries cannot be reduced until they have some-
' what raffled from the shock to their systems. The
other three sufferers were able to be removed to
their homes. Tho line was cleared so quickly that
the traffic was not del syed more than five minutes.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR TLIE WEEK.

Miles
o?ened. NAME OF RAILWAY.
1857.

BSITICH.

115 Aberdeen •• •• •• •• ..... • • .• ••
65 Ballast and Ballymena •• • • •• • • •• •• ••
17 Belfast and County Down• • • • •• •• • • ..
33 Birkenliesd, Lancashire, and Cheshire
26% f Bolton, filackburn,and West York ....
117 Bristol and Exeter •• .... • • • • • • • •
198 Caledonian. ........... .... •• • • •• • .

9a Clie.ster and 1101yhoad.• •.. • • .... •• • •
6!•ii Cork, Blackrock, and k'assago •• •• • •
I
20 Cork and Bandon .• • • •• •• •.

56
63
404
16%
31
2.6
6734

183 N
283
203!4
415
25
90
286

16k
637

S•X
182%
267

Dublin and Belfast.)" unction ..
Dublin and Drogheda• • • • • • • • • •• • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dundee and Arbroath • • • • • • • • • • .. •,
Dundee, Forth, and Aberdeen Jai:ldle]
Dundalk and Enniskillen • • .. • • • • • • •
East Angl ian.... • • • , • . • .

East

173%
_9yi

Eastern Counties and Noriblk .. • • .
Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • ....

Edinburgh ant Glasgow.
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee......
Exeter and Cred1t0n................
Furness Railway ... .............,
013sgow, and South-Western........
Great N0rthern.••........ ••

Great Southern and Western (Ireland'
Great Western .• ••••••••.• • • • • • • • .
Irish South Eastern ...............
Lancaster and Carlisle.... • • •• • •• ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • .. • •
Leeds Northern .. • • .. • • .• • • • • •
Liverpool, Crosby. and Sonthport• • .
London and North Western
London and Blackly all •••• .......
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South Western. •
Londonderry and Enniskillen • •
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Sheftield,and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction••
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • •• .•
Midland .. •• . ....... ..... .• •• •
Midland Great Western (Irish) ......
Monklands .. • • • • ..
Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .• . • „
North British • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ,
North Staffordshire •• • • •• . •• •
North-Western ••.• • • ••••• • • • • • • •
Scottish Central • • • • • • • • • • • • .• • .....
Scottish Midland ••••.••• • • , • • • •
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Shrewsbury and Chester • •
Shropshire Union .. • • .....
South Devon .••• • • • ••••••• • • • • • • •
South Eastern • • • • • • • • • • „
South Wales .• •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •
South York., Doncaster, and Goole ..
Waterford and Limerick • • .• • •
West Cornwall ••• • • • ••• • • •• • •• • •
Whltehaven Junction . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds..

505
126
52
78 34
142
233

Receipts.

1857.

1,309

574(
289
171%

1,633
6,2tiu

21 425

5,519
6,201

6,459
2x,122
7,545
28,440

27
12
682

264
5,696
22,815

60,853
1,318
14,478
11,v60
692

2,24 t

1;50
6,036
11,327
5,139

10,223

848
977
31,500
3,9J4

262
1,328
1,262

573
1,020

4,829
7,577
750

1,810
2,D48
942
2,661
17,657
6,640
2,403
4,558

950
5,852

22,036

5,294
5,673

b,854
21 744
6,913
26,743
317
5 581
21,785

1,055
616

59,327
1,28 R
17,261
30,282
GOI

9,561
7b5

819
29,606
2,996

5.C32
7,015
800

1,591
2,509
882
2,3)3
16,85 G
5,736
2,162

1,252
580