The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

BEDFORD V. COOPER AND OTHERS

In this case Charles Bedford was plaintiff, and Edw
3oner. John Slack, and two other persons were the de

fendants. The action was for work and labour done,
money paid, money received, and on an account stated.
The defendants, except as to £8 denied any promise, and
as to £2lO they pleaded a set-off. They also pleaded
payment of the £290. It appeared that the plaintiff was
a clerk, and that, for twenty-one years,' he had been in
the employment of the firm of Margaret Barton and Co.,
who formerly carried on business in the copper ore and
brass line in Manchester. The defendants consisted' of
four gentlemen who were creditors to the firm of Barton
and Co., and on the Bth of October, 1825, Barton and
Co. getting into difficulties, all the money of that firm
was transferred to the defendants, and they carried on the
business until June, 1846, for their own benefit, and that
of the other creditors. The present action was brought
to recover the wages owing to the plaintiff: and it was
contended that there was no doubt that the relation of
e I master and servant commenced between the defendants

and the plaintiff when the former became inspectors to
the estate of Barton and Co. The plaintiff was non-
suited.
Two undefended causes were then tried, and the whole
of the first list, with the exception of one special jury
cause, was disposed of.
Several undefended causes in the second list were then
rapidly gone through.

R V. DAVIS AND ANOTHER

This was an action brought by William Spencer against
Thomas Davis and Thomas Parry for the recovery of a sum
of £32 6s. 6d. for work and labour done. The plaintiff
was a plumber and glazier in Liverpool, and he bad agreed
for the sum of £4O, less 7-I ner cent.. to naint nine houses

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belonging to the defendants, which are situated in Crown-
street. He had fulfilled his part of the contract, and now
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In the two following cases, Greenhouse t
Williams v. Sharpies and another, the plaintiffs, who were
unrepresented by counsel, were nonsuited.

Woolf, and

CROSTON V. GARDNEE

This was an action brought by George Croston against
Henry Gardner. The declaration was in debt, and the ac-
tion was brought to recover a sum of £7O 14s. for certain
plumbing, painting, and glazing done to certain houses

belonging to the defendant in
the plaintiff, subject to a reference
Counsel not being ready to proceec

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causes,

minal case

William Storey, Thomas Cox, and Charles Foley were
indicted for having, on the 18th ult., broken and entered
the dwelling-house of John Jordan, innkeeper, residing at

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Liverpool-road, Manchester, and stolen thereout some
silver and copper money. The facts of the case were very
brief :—The doors were fastened, as usual, on the night

the prosecutor was called up by the policeman on duty,
and then found that an entrance had been effected by the
grid, that the till had been ransacked, and that the money
which it contained, which consisted only of. a couple of
shillings, had been taken away. The prisoners Cox and
Storey were observed near the premises, and upon Foley
a crooked sixpence was found, which was similar to one
that had been stolen. The prisoners were acquitted.
"My lord," said one of the jury, "we have no doubt
whatever that the prisoners broke into the house and
robbed it, but there is not sufficient evidence of it." (Loud
laughter.) Another Juryman : " There is no doo't aboot
it, but we mun go by th' evidence." His lordship looked
and smiled, but said nothing.
Andrew Howard pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary.
Sentence deferred.

The trial of Joseph Speed, for the murder of his two
infant children at Manchester, is fixed for this morning

(Tuesday).
On Saturday evening, Mr. Justice Wightman fixed that
none of the special jury cases will be taken before Thurs-
day, and then they will be tried in the order in which
they are inserted in the cause list.
At Gloucester, John Skinner, aged 30, indicted for the
wilful murder of his wife by throwing her out of an upper
window into the street, was acquitted, it being doubtful
whether the deceased fell out of the window accidentally,
jumped out in order to avoid her brutal husband, who
was rushing at her with a knife, or was thrown out by

him.
COMPENSATION.—In January, a labourer was killed on
the South Eastern Railway, by a sudden jerk of an engine
throwing him beneath the wheels of a train of waggons on
which he was employed. At the Croydon assizes, last
week, his wife sued the company in forma pauperis to re-
cover compensation for the injury she had sustained by
his death. The jury gave her a verdict, damages £lOO,
£5O for herself, and £25 for each of her children.
At the Warwick assizes, a Mr. Bethell, a widower and
upholsterer at Birmingham, brought an action for breach
of promise of marriage against Miss Meredith, the daugh-
ter of a farmer, aged thirty. She was a young lady of
property, and her counsel laughed the case out of court,
admitting the promise, but contending that the property,
and not the lady, was the real object of the plaintiff's
addresses. The jury returned a verdict of damages one
farthing.
At the Bridgewater Assizes, on Monday, Maurice Perry,
a railway navvy, was found guilty of the wilful murder of
John Bailey, a police constable, while engaged in the ex-
ecution of his duty at Bathampton. A fight was taking
place in the tap-room of a public-house, between some
railway labourers, when the deceased interfered to put a
stop to it. He was knocked down several times, and
kicked by many of them, and the prisoner, a ruffianly-
looking fellow, was observed to be foremost in the affray.
Chief Justice Wilde passed sentence of death on him,
leaving him without hope of mercy in this world, but the
murdererwm quite unmoved clgougheut the trhilt

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AN INDUSTRIOUS JUDGE.-At Croydon assizes, on
Saturday week, a case, which had long occupied the court,
did not conclude until past seven o'clock in the evening,
and his lordship ordered another special jury cause to be
called on.—Mr. Chambers said he was concerned in the
cause, and he hoped his lordship would not take it at that
period of the day. It would occupy at least five hours,—
Baron Parke : Never mind. (A laugh.) Eventually Ba-
ron Parke consented to the cause being postponed, but he
decided upon disposing of a common jury case, and the
court rose at eight o'clock.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANC E.-A circumstance of
rather an extraordinary nature occurred at Clonmel
The sheriff had been warned to amend, previous to the
North Riding assizes, the jury panel, which Judge Perrin
declared to be informal. At length the panel appeared in
the same state, when his lordship called the high sheriff,

and inquired the cause of the neglect. He replied that
counsel's opinion had been taken by the sub-sheriff, who
had been advised it was quite correct ; when his lordship

repeated that it was informal, and fined the sheriff £5OO
for refusing to obey the orders of the court.—Leinster

It Lancaster assizes, last week, Ed-
aged 20, was charged with killing and slay-

!den with aiding and abetting. The prisoner and deceased,
it appeared, had quarrelled on Lancaster race-ground, and
fought for an hour, from the effects of which Seward died

next morning. A surgeon proved the immediate cause of
death to be effusion of blood on the brain ; which, in an-
swer to the prisoner's counsel, he stated might have been

the fight. His lordship, under these circumstances,
ped the case, and directed the jury to acquit all the

BILL DISCOUNTING.—JACOBS V. TARLETON.-AtCroy-
don, on Saturday, an action was brought by Henry
Jacobs against the Rev. John Edward Tarleton, the
rector of Chelsfield and Farnborough, in Kent, to recover
the amount of his acceptance upon a bill of exchange for
£lOO. The defendant pleaded that the bill had been

ootainea Dy trawl, ana tnat tne plaintili had nc
any consideration for the bill, and was not bond frit
holder of it. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Petersdorff were
for the plaintiff, and Serjeant Shee and Mr. Ogle for the
defendant. The bill in question was put in. It was
drawn on the 21st of January, 1847, by one Snell,
accepted by the defendant, and then appeared to have

been endorsed by one Gardener, and by him and Henry
Jacobs, the present plaintiff.—Serjeant Shee then ad-
dressed the jury for the defendant, and said that the
defence he was instructed to offer was, that the reverend
gentleman had been made the victim of a gang of swindlers,
and that all the persons whose names appeared to the bill
were parties to the fraud. He then proceeded to state that
the defendant, being in some pecuniary difficulty in October
last year, was desirous to raise some money, and he
was incautious enough to answer an advertisement that
appeared in one of the public papers, offering to lend mo-
ney, and eventually a person named Gardener called upon
him, and at his suggestion he was induced to accept two

which Gardener took away with hiin

he gave the defendant

get cuscounte
and a few da

67 in two payment

ailed again upon him, and represented that there

some informality in the two bills, which prevented him
from getting them discounted, and Tarleton gave him two

le first

300 one,
s threat-

pelled to pay both the £2OO bill atic
and when the other £3OO bill became dui
ened with legal proceedings by Gardener
duced to give three £lOO bills in lieu of t
and the present was one of those bills ; but as it was quite
clear that the transaction was one of the most fraudulent
character, he felt it his duty to resist the payment.---A
verdict was returned for the defendant.

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SAFETY OF RAILROAD TRAVELLING.-At the half-
yearly general meeting of the Eastern Counties Railway,
on Thursday, Mr. Hudson, the chairman, made the fol.-
lowing statement :—" Gentlemen, there is another subject
of deep congratulation and of great thankfulness. You
have carried 1,056,000 passengers ; whereas, in the corres-
ponding months of last year you carried 827,000 ; and
that number of passengers has been carried without a
single accident to a single passenger. (Hear.) I state
this with great thankfulness, because I know that a
casualty may occur ; still it is a proof how perfect the
system has become, when a million of people may be con-
veyed during a kW-year without one accident. This is
the fifth company over which I have presided this week ;
this is the fifth body of shareholders whom I have met,
and it has been a subject of deep thankfulness and con-

gratulation that the freedom from accidents has been so

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY

yearly meeting of the corn

The half-

.ny was held at the De Grey

Rooms, in I-ork, on MoLlaY last. The report recom-
mended a dividend of £lO per cent. per annum
.upon the
original £5O and £25 shares, the Selby £5O and £25
shares, and the Scarborough £25 shares, and also after
the same rate upon the amount, called up prior to the Ist
of January last on the extension shares of 1845 (being £2O

per share', all of which shares are now converted into con-
solidated stock. The total amount of this dividend will
be £88,550, which, when paid, with the half-year's rent

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of the Hull and Selby line, payable on the Ist instant,
will leave a balance of £3,318 ss. Bd. to the credit of the
company. The recommendation of the report was imme-
,• . •

mately aaopteci. Mr. Hudson, the chairman, announced
that he did not anticipate they would have to appear be-
fore parliament at all during the next session. (Applause.)

This company had now all they could get, and he saw no
prospect at present of any other profitable outlay of their
money ; and he hoped they would now be able to sit
down, and enjoy what parliament had committed to their
charge, rather than continue to be engaged in fighting
parliamentary battles. The announcement was received.
with evident satisfaction by the great body of share-
holders present. _ _

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY : THE
WOLVERTON " COLONY."—On Wednesday, August 4,
the children of Wolverton station day and Sunday schools
enjoyed their annual excursion, by special train granted
by the directors for the purpose. Last year we recorded
their visit to Tring and the beautiful village of Aldbury.
C it occasi."-

in the pres, the place selected by the clergy-
man of the station, the Rev. Geo. Weight, was Bedford,
and, with it, the village of Elstow, the birth-place of the
magic dreamer John Bunyan, the immortal author of the
" Pilgrim's Progress." The train consisted of 15 car-
riages, and conveyed nearly 300 teachers and children,
arid about 100 adults, the parents and friends of the
children. 2701b5. of plum-cake were distributed to the
teachers and children. The former were also plentifully
supplied with tea and other refreshments. If there be
any person who, at this period of the railway era, can
doubt whether it be wise and politic, even in a worldly
point of view, to sunnlv such a.

'olverton with a Church

,een present at the excursion to Bedford.

e waving of

) or 270 children—

flags and banners—the shouts of 2t
and the smiling faces of the happy parents who followed
their minister, and walked beside their healthy and happy
rhildran —a 1 I mnlll ri _ _

proved that there was something in -the N;O7-171—w4osartvlei.
caring for, even before Mammon. We will only add,
that the company give the clergyman of the station a„ carte
he one for £3OO, blanche on these annual occasions, and they most libe-

rally pay all the expen

LONDON AND Nor

usual half-yearly meeting of tl

vay Record

The

company took place on

Esq., ALP., took the chair at twelve o'clock. The
Chairman said—He thought the company had given to the
public all the advantages of competition ; but if that
principle was carried on, it would be found that where
combination was possible, competition would be found
impossible. The public safety would be endangered
the ,by. --,ld be fr .1w-

Jecause no person wornu iound in railway
companies to keep them up to that perfection which they
had hitherto attained.—(Cheers.) The accounts of the
company were before the proprietors ; there was a great
falling off, he was sorry to say, of the passenger-traffic of
the company for the last half year. In, firs, I:la:sir:ass passen-
gers alone there was a falling off of X 16,400. In the se-
cond-class a small increase had taken place, but in third-
class passengers there was a falling off of £8,345. There

was also a great reduction and

increase in the rates and taxes

si to this there was a great
5. The worthy chairman,

he directors

to proceed hastily with any of ti

res for which

they had obtained th
gulations of Parliame
they had pursued.

The re-

company had been anxious for a
!rences between all c

settlement of al,
and he hoped the time was not far distant when they
would all pull together, and every railway company have
an opportunity of looking into its own concerns. The se-
cretary then read the report, which, after taking a review
of the proceedings of the company for the last half year,
and the works that had been carried on during that period,
recommended a dividend of 4i per cent. for the last half

half year, after a few observations -from some of the pro—
prietors. In answer to a question from a proprietor, the
chairman said that the proprietors might expect but a

small increase in their dividends next -half-year. With
respect to the Oxford and Birmingham line, all the com-
pany asked for was, that it might be a second line for
them into Birmingham. Their object in this was to pre-
vent an immense outlay of the capital of this company,
and that was the whole secret of the proceedings of the
directors of this company. Mr. Crossfield said that it
had been decided that it was not illegal for the proprietors
of that company to possess shares in the Oxford and Bir-
mingham Company, and he trusted, therefore, that the
proprietors would increase the number of shares which
they at present possessed in that company.

treet, London, on Wednesday;

rhe di—

r. Thomas, dep
rectors, in their report, state that the investigations into
the plans for the proposed extension bridges to span the
Conway and the Menai Straits give the utmost confidence
in the results, and that that over the Conway will be com-
pleted in three months, and practically tested. The
e monthly expenditure for the last half-year was £90,916 ;
I k that for the six months up to December 31st next, is

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proceedings in parliament, and expressing a confident
hope in obtaining power next session to establish steam-
boats between Holyhead and Dublin, notwithstanding the

authorize this company to raise for the contribution to
the harbour, the extension of the line thereto, and for
the necessary wharfs and stations, amounts to £3,363,332.

Your directors recommend that of this sum £63,000 shall
be raised by the creation of 42,000 shares of £l5 each,
being one new share for each original share ; and that tl
remaining £34,538 be raised by loan. That these new-
shares shall be issued as preference shares, to receive at all
times a dividend at the rate of 51- per cent. per annum,
and to participate with the entire stock in any increased
rate of div idend which may be declared. That these
shares be paid upon as follows :—£4 deposit on the Ist of
Septen