The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

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HOME CIRCUIT.—CaoyDox, Alyourr 8.

MIL SIDI.
TIONAI AND ANOTIEN v. Tali SOUTH 'ASTI= NAIL-

WAY COMPANY.

In this action, which was brought to recover the sum of
10,000 L, the alleged value of a gustily of gold dust that
was stolen ea transit upon the South Restern Railway to'
Louden, ea applioatient was made by Kr. &twin James to
haw the owe Wad is Leaden.
The Attorney-General, it was stated, was specially ».
inlaid on behalf of the plaintiff, and no lass then sixty wit-
nesses, it appeared, had bees subpeased from Prawn to
give evidence.
Mr. Judos Wightsaa, with the comsat of all puties,
endued the trial to stand one.

./oorpll Murky. 31, wu indicted for wilful and corrupt
Perjury
Mr. Wahiawa prosecuted ; Mr. Hee. wu counsel for the
defeadaat.

arose out of an action tried at the lest
Bummer Aldose at Guildford. before Mr. Justice Ede, upon
seemisa the Omer was the defendant, and a person'
semi Be*, wee the plaintiff. The salon was brought to
meow a gam efmassey. se the balsam of an account; and
the demos set up was, that Shirley was in reality a partner
of Bayley, and upon his examination, among other suite-
moots made by hini, be swore that a certain horse, which 1
was one of the matters in dispute between them, had been
purchased with his own money, and not with that of Bay-
ivy. This statement was distinctly negatived, and upon the
Jury finding a verdict in favour of Boyle the learned judge
ordered the prisoner into custody, and divested that an in-
dictment for perjury should be preferred against him.
Thee' facts were now again made out by the testimony of the
different whams*, and there appeared to be very little
doubt that the defendant had deliberately sworn to what
be must have known to be Glee, is order to escape from the
liability in which he was involved by the action that was
brought against him.
The jury having without any hesitation returned a ver-
dict of guilty,
The learned Judge, after obee•ving upon the very
heinous character of the offence, sentenced the defendant to
pay a fine of one shilling to the Queen, to be imprisoned in
the aunty gaol for one month, and to be that kept to hard
labour for eleven months.
Mary Beldhous, 27, was indicted for the wilful murder of
her male child.

Mr. Garth prosecuted. The prisoner was defended by
Mr. Lilley.
It appeared that the prisoner was married in December
last, and that the child whose death was the subject of in-
quiry was born about three weeks afterwards. The hus-
band of the prisoner was a labouring man, and they lived
together in the neighbourhood of Farnham, and according
to the evidence of a woman named Chapman, who lived
near them when the child was born, it append perfectly
healthy. It died very soon afterwards, and in oonsequence
of some suspicion that appeared to be excited by the occur•
rinse, a medical gentleman was called in to examine the
child, and he expressed an opinion that it had died from
suffocation. Is oddities to these facts, it appeared that
there wee a mark as though a ligature of some kind had
been tied tightly round the neck of the child, but there was
no direct evidence to show what had occasioned this mark,
or that it bad not been caused accidentally.
The Handed counsel for the prisoner made a most earnest
and effective appeal to the jury on her behalf, contending
that the evidence was by far of too inconclusive a character
to justify them is finding a verdict of guilty against her.
The learned Judge having summed up, the jury almost
immediately returned a verdict of Not Gasify.
This case concluded the criminal badness, and his lord-
, ship this proceeded to try civil causes.

Avavar 7.

CIOW7I 00171 T.
Joerph Bunn, 33, wu indicted for ►igamy. Mr. Doyle
prosecuted; Mr. Watkins Williams wu counsel for the pri-
eoner.

The fact of the prisoner having twice gone through the
ceremony of marriage wee distinct 4 established, but it cep-
peered that the fint wile had grossly emisconduted herself,
and had left the prisoner and gone to live with another
man. He had, it appeared, lived very happily with the se-
cond wife, and the prisoner, who yru represented to be a
hard-working well.cooducted tau, was proved to have
acted with the utmost kindness towards her, and then was
no complaint on her part against him.
The learned counsel for the prisoner, who stated that hi
held his maiden brief upon the occasion, in his address to
the jury, commented upon the facts of the ease, and like.
wise observed upon the hardship that was cut upon persons
in the condition of the prisoner by the present state of the
law with regard to divorce, and he said that as the only
remsey at present afforded the poor man who had the =is-
tutting to be allied to a worthless partner was one which
his means did not enable him to obtain, he was very fre-
quently 'compelled to commit the offence of which the
prisoner was now accused. He therefore celled upon them,
if they should feel that their duty compelled them to raters
• verdict of guilty, to accompany it with such a recom-
mendation as would no doubt induce the court to pass •
lenient sentence upon the prisoner.
His Lordship, in gumming up, said that the kgislature
had had ample opportunities of considering the law of
divorce, and of masking alterations in it if they oonsidered
them expedient, and as they had not seen fit to asks such
alteratiou, they must admini.ter the law as it actually
existed. if therefore the offence was established to their
satisfaction, ft was their duty to say so by their verdict.
The jury toned the prisoner Guilty, bet strongly recom-
mended hint to merry.
He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Ceumr., Auo. 6.

LT CASII OP 101031 T.

&heard &sari Wilms, described in the calendar as a
" clerk, aged 34, reads and writes well," was charged with
having, on the 3rd of February last, forged the signature of
Messrs. Hodgson , solicitor', of Carlisle, to *cheque upon
the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank, (or 5391.121. 6d. The
prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. °reread, Q C., with whom was Mr. W. H. Hodgson,
appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Solemn Wilkins de-,
fended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence thst on Monday, the 6th
of February, a letter was received by Mr. Ward, manager
of the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank. It was dated Car-
lisle, February 3, and had enclosed a cheque upon the bank
la question for 6391. 12a. 6d., payable to the Rev. Thomas
Sandenon, and drawn in the names of Messrs. T. and C.
Hodgson, solicitors, Carlisle. The writer of the letter, who
signed himself as the Rev. Thomas Sandenon, of Langford
Vicarage. near Lancaster, stated that on arriving in Carlisle
that afternoon front the country, he found he was too late
to get a draft for the cheque enclosed, and being obliged to
leave by the next train to be in time for his duties the fol-
lowing day, he maid be very much obliged if Mr. Ward
would forward an order oa the London agents of the bask
for the amount, payable at sight, by the neat post.
A statement of account between Messrs. Hodgson
and the Bev. Tbomss Sanderson was enclosed with
the cheque, which latter appeared to have been
part of the sheet on which the statement was
written, and to have bees cut off it. Mr. Ward having
no suspicions in the matter, the cheque being apparently in
the handwriting of one of the Messrs. Hodgson, at once
drew a draft on Messrs. Monkey and Co., the bankers'
agents, for the amount named, less commission, and trans-
mitted it to Lancaster, as directed. In the course of post
he received as acknowledgment dated 6th of February from
Langford Viearage, soar Lancaster. The draft on Hankies
was subsequently »tuned as paid, and no more was thought
about the matter till the lath of April, when the Messrs.
Hodgeon's passbook was made up, and the cheque was
found to be a forgery. To Bs the guilt upon the prisoner it
was shown that as a clerk in one of the
leading solicitor's oaken in Carlisle, doing fre-
quent business with the Messes. Hodgson, he would
have ample opportunities of knowing their hand-
writing ; that the prisoner went up to London on February
7th by,the night train, and that a person asswering his
appearance, a passenger by the train, gave a letter to the
Lancaster station-master, requesting him to get it posted,

sad to be particular with it, as it ITas importiar ; fiat the
letter was directed to Mr. Ward, and was so doubt the se-

knowlednient of the rweipt of tie draft; that the Lancaster
postmaster had previously received a letter dated from Car-
lisle, stating that a letter had been by mistake directed to
the writer (Mr. Sanderson) at Langford Vicarage, and re-
questing that it might be r►directed to him at the Carlisle
post-office ; that the prisoner arrived at an hotel in Drum-
mond street, London, on the =orating of the 7th February,
and went oat about 8 o'clock ; that the draft on Messrs.
H.nhey's was cashed about as hour after; that the prisoner
subsequently at the Huagerford Hotel was seen etinatia<ost
five hundred posed* fa gold, and told a gentleman staying
at the hotel that he bad just some from Carlisle,
and that three of the 61. notes paid by Mean. Hickey's
clerk in cashing the draft were distinctly traced to his poe.
maim. Witnesses, well acquainted with his handwriting,
also spoke to the handwriting of the body of the cheque and
the indorsement, and other dornments produced in eon.
nezion with the cam, as being in the prisoner's usual style.
Serjeaut Wilkins made as able and energetic defence,
contending that some of the witnesses were mistaken, and
others unworthy of credit, and that in several thing. which
he pointed out the conduct of his client had been such as
showed that he was not the guilty party.

The jury, after an hour's eeneultadon, returned a verdict
of Guilty. and
His lordship sentenced the prisoner to 20 years' trans.
portation.

MORE ROBBERIES OF GOLD AND WATCHES.—The
daring and impatience of oar thieves de la Arnie polio, un-
able it Diktat, to wait for the keg nights of winter, are
becoming truly shinning. Tray, of jewellery disappear
almost every other day—swept off nobody knows lt,w,
nobody knows whore. It is the isms with watebee which
will solo be difllesit to obtain tattoo tbrouab the Noose.
Yesterday afternoon Worsted's was given that a very
extensive robbery wee sonnisiod at Kr. G. Millert's, watch-
man, Ossil•ssisol, essamd, essalals of gold and silver
gnashes el& sass Milkk a as to upwards of
200 f.; and ea SWUM dm OM wn,assived of au suas-
ive robbery IS Ilho se,oisrsisil SW and Gaeta Hotel. The
aims damped Ida wile 11W is gild aad ether.