The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1862.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL/IL—Thu-ftApe".
Nam of the members Irvin game from Lavorrool to
Doecamer, Do beanies WY trammeled at Tattermill'm thin
afternoon.

LIVERPOOL RACES.—WzosorDAY.
(ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.]
A HANDICAP PLAT' OP 41:1110111. ; wfason of say hasp
dirap sluff Feb. 13. extra. Half • mils.
Lord et iniforila Little Laity, by arando. 4 Pi/ 444 fine
tilli tat ,A. Lawants) 1
Mr. 'teen. BrUltan. 4 yrs. Tat IRS Inc: Din extra
!H. Orlinsitawl
Mr lats.'. Lopl of the Manor, 6 yrs, 94 Cnetance. 3
111$411e't Mi•ii Julia. aged. tat alb (0. Vietnam) 0
Mr. Phillipie. Harriet, 4 yrs, tat slb
lir. 6'hri9lM's Fart.; 3 yr*. OA
Mr. Parlors gby Wight —natio. 5 fn. Brt alb ,Whiteley' 0
Betting : 2 to 1 apt Little Lady. 3 to 1 apt Lord of the
Mew. sad 7to 2 apt Miss hall. Wes by e heed ; the
distaste between the second sad third. Harriet was
geed (earth.

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.—THURSDAY.
Tea TRIAL STALES of 5 soya each, with 30 added; for
=Vs and upwards ; winners extra; mares and geldings
31Iw with maiden allowances. T. IX. (9 gabs.)
Perm Milnes Benjamin, by womersley, 3yn. Oct ulb
llubter) 1
Mr. T Parra Dusk. yvv, Mt ISt 'car. Tel' .... ',Clement) 2
Mr. Morns a Brahmin, 3 yrs, 7M Sib ....(B. Foster) 3
Mr .1 i bhorbes Weethenien, 3 yrs, Mt 12Th ..(Whiteley) 4
Mr. Roducee• i(ueen of Trumps. 3 yes, est 6Th... !lesion) I
Sir SAJWIed Will Watch, 3 yrs, 6611111• ^
Betting : 6 to 4 apt Benjamin. 4 to I each apt Weather-
den and Dusk, 6 to 1 wit Will Watch, and 8 to 1 agst
Brahmin. Weutherden and Dust made the running to the
distance, where Benjamin got up to the pair. Weatheiden
instantly falling away, the two ran a fine race home, Ben-
jamin winning a fise race by a short head. Brahmin was
beaten from Dusk by three leogtlis. Weatherden a bad
fourth. Will Watch, beaten off, last.
Ter Horxret Pluses of 5 'ors. each, with 50 added for
; colts, Pet 71b ; ellles, list Sib ; winners extra ;
maiden allowances. Hopeful course, about five furlongs.
(10 robs.)
Baron Births's Dirt Cheap liyOrlando, Set 1016 ;Inc 71h es
(If. Orbs:whew I
Mr. Z. E. Villeon's Bohemia, eat Sib (ear Mt sib
(J. Osixese I
' Mr. Tempericja Alice, Set 3111 (Doyle
Captain Coates*, The Avenger, Pit 7th (13. Feedbags) 4
Mr. Bungee:Ws Swift, Sat Ill.(J. Reowden) 0
Mr. J. Jackson's Formidable, het Mb (Bullock) 0
Mr. O. W. Monies Vl.hnu, not lib (IL Foster) 0
Mr. N. Cooke The ratios. Bock, Set 31b ..(A. Edwards' 0
Baiting: 6to 4 apt Bohemia, 3 to 1 apt Dirt Cheap. 4
to 1 wane Avenger, sad 10 to 1 apt any other (off). The
Fallow Bush wen very unruly at the post, causing a lot of
fain starts and when the Gag fell she was left at the post,
and took no part io the race. A fine race is with -Dirt
Cheap and the favourite from the half distance, Dirt Cheap
obtaining the advantage within a couple of strides of the
chair, and winning cleverly by a neck ; four lengths between
the second and third. The Avenger was thee up fourth,
Swift nest, Formidable sixth, with Vishnu whipping in.
TB' laneditTlit SPIUSO. HANDICAP of 10 sows each, with
100 added, for all cgs' wieners extra • the second to save
his stake. St. Leger Coons. (31 sub., 11 of whom paid
3 sous. each.)
Mr Barites Commas, by Cotbendonc, 4 yea 7st Sib
(G. Forint=) 1
Mr. Fobeut se rfferband, 5 yrs, Rat Ilb Doyle
Mr. T. Pan's Too, 3 yes, Tat 2lb 'Clement 3
M :lama's Little Dick, 6 yrs. 7st iMblatery 4
Baron BMWs &Wands, 3 yn, eat 10Ib (Huston 0
Ur. R. F. Wfbacis Ruby, 3 yrs, Sat 101 l rei hiteleyl 0
Mr. Eastwood's Mayflower, 3 yes, est 91b ... (Hudnall's) 0
Count F. cis Ingmar% Arcadia, 3 re, 7st .4lh Inc.. 101 b es)
(H. Grimshaw) 0
Mr: Pimples% Bannerdate, 2 pa. est Sib J. Delay) 0
Mr. If andy's Retain*. 3 yrs, est
Betting : 9 to 4 aget Conundrum, sto 1 each apt Watch-
fire and Amadei, 6 to 1 apt Tolurno, 7 to 1 apt llansordals,
and 10 to 1 apt Upperhand. Benjamin cut out the work at
a good pace, with Little [lick, Watchilre, Upperhand, Das-
neniale next. Conundrum (who got badly off) was NOWA
lengths behind the front let. Before reaching the diatoms
Conundrum had run through his Donut and with Upper-
hand had the finish to themselves ; Conundrum winning
easily by • length and a half ; a neck separating the two neat;
Little Dick was a bad fourth ; the two last being Benjamin
and Hubs,.
Tun I.;ONDINDOROCON PLATE of 501.,, for 3-yr-old@ and
upwards ; winners extra. lied House in.
Colonel Towasky's Whitewall, by Stockwell, 4 yes let
(J. Ilaselso)
Mr. J. Bewitches lady Bird. 4 yre. Vst 211)
Mr. C. Peck. Service, 4 yrs, ist 51b ..(1
Mr R Warwee e Donee Canoe. 3 yrs, OA tetoweial
Mr. HOPWOOtre Charlie ?Os. re, eat ».. (J
Mr. Fenn ea lielierewi. 3 yrs. Mt Mb
Mr. Cliarke's Tom Viscount (Me The OMP. 4 Oh
Mr. c. previa/Imm the Carey, 6
Mr. wasta's Owyhee Beauty. 4 ms, Ft lib
Mr. C. Pleeltars Lord (hancellor, a pe, est
Dotting : 6 to 2 apt Whitewall, 4 to 1 egel Hailstorm,
7le 1 wit Cheeks Fox, and 10 to 1 apt Swaim Mother
hag yet the poW.
_wham the Os fell. king
Dera, with Is dy NW. kohl the emasmealte
the dietseee. where W hitewell jobbed them, awl a pea
rem is teak Om% Whitewall wievieg dryer)) by leaf a
Isisenla, • husk b east • belt waparadwg Ws sseasi mid I
Deane Chase was a bed berth ; Omaha Fez seat.

said ;
for two-yr-oltis, 7st ; Arse, Bet 196 b ; her, 10st 511t=
10st ; six sad see& UM • maw sad p
316 ; the wiener Si Sisal Stir IW. ; adhailiallussow;
the ot,ood to um his slaw Hal.. ail.

I.:.74it7.t;m7ce7siii si.ipeTSTl) 1
Mr. A. Towle* UMW 4TM (Mt) II
Mr Kennedy's tlay, t tab {ML) $
Tax STAND PLeri, 616 4•41. sash, with 20 added ; for
all ages ; the assaad to am Ms Maks. Bad [lowa it.
Mr. G. w. Morris's The Rrattelin, 3 yn. Sri 1
Calomel ToTroeleys Whitrwelt. 4 yrs. WI TA ... .
Mr. T. Spencer's 3rhy•ou4, 6 yrs, 714 LIM 3
Ilya am

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGEMENTS.
Harela 10, st Aoa.m.—Elyptiao, out of Liverpool ri
espgament• ; Kaiol at the Mist and Earl of Westmerth d,
out of t►e Lourleaborough Plate at Doncaster.
March 10, at 12. W p.m.—Mutineer, oat of all rupee.
eta.
HORSES NAMED. _ _ _

Tim following nari;seitiso been Riven : Yr. C. Sorming's
b f by Cam:lobs% out of British Remedy, 3 yrs old, Com-
mittee ; b f by Voltigour, out of British komedy, 2 yrs old,
Barter ; b !Iffy foal by Wild items 1, out of British Be,
med., TrAdic ; Lord Usbridge's b o (Into Antlered Dow)
by Mountain Deer. out of Truth, 2 ym old, Tinto Heart.
Mr. E. Hull's Witlassa, Byre obi. band.

Sat R. Pm. AND NHS him POOR-LAW BILL.
—The Chief Secretary has (says the Preman's Journal)
yielded to thelpreeme of public opinion:and withdrawn that
obooxious clause (tbe 11th) in his Poor Law Amendment
Bill which intended to tax all religions, charitable, and
educational eetablishments in this country. Dr. Spratt
memorialled the Chief Secretary on the subject of the St.
Joseph's Night Refuge for Homeless Women and Children,
and clearly submitted to Sir Robert the consequences to
this institution of clause eleven, soil concluded
with the entreaty that the Chief Secretary would
withdraw this proposition to make all charitable
institutions rateable for poor law purposes. In his
reply the boo. lirronet states the prayer of the memorial
has been complied with. The clause, we are informed, was
founded on the report of the select committee of last year,
and was ititnidnasl in deference to their wishes. However,
as thin clause hes excited intense indignation, government
will not prase it, "at least in its preilentshaps." We think
the qualification might have been omitted The clause was
lageogesagry ; and on the publication of the relent we
stated that any Imislatiou in that direction would 'be alike
unpopular and unjust.
CANADIAN EMIGRATION TO BRITISH COLt/NRIA.--
The movement towards the gold fields of British Colum-
bia which is almost depopulating some Farts of California,
and M raging with some intensity in the Slates, has reached
some parts of Canada too, and several hundred adventurous
spirits are going to follow the few who have already left in
search of fortune. on the Pacific coast. The papers of the
Atlantic provinces ..re rather discountenancing this—they
fear the exodus of even a few, and they are puintiug to the
rich new gold tilde of Nova Scotia as a preferable quarter
for people to try their luck. I hardly known which course
to take. I hope a large number of immigrants will
go to both. What a future for this noitberu portion of the
continent do not these new gold discoveries open up! The
Nova Scotia coal mines are the beet plums on the Atlantic
Boast of America for procuring omit —nay, I think the only
place. and the supplies there are inexhaustible. Van-
passer's Island is the only spot where coal is to la found
on the Pacific. Thus facilities fur steam boat ai.d
way travel are provided at either end of the great trans- '
continental route. The harbour of Halifax on the
OW side and Victoria on the other are the best
in all America, loth always free from ice, well
protected, and capacious. The valley of the St.
Lawrence extends a thousand miles and more between
these extreme joists. The valley of the Saskatchewen runs
a thu,inul miles further, both of therm being io British ter-
ritory, 11l the direction of travel between the oceans. and so
level as to be almost natural beds for railroads. Ere many
years I see that railway trains must run on British ground
front one side of till+ ucw world to the other, carrying not
only the gold of I 'Alifornia and Columbia towards Crest
Bntrin, but also the teas end silks of Chita and Japan and
the rirh productioes of our Indian empire, returning with
the floor erniuufactures of English anvils and looms for the
supply of the jopulatious of two continents.—Ciinadiass
Roo', March th

ATLA AND GRIAT WkaTERN RAILWAY:
Traffic receipt* foe the week ending February Ib:—Ake
seogere, 40:1 dots. ; freight, 3,273 dots. ; express. 21 doh. ;
mad, rei dots, ; total, 3,i110 dots. ; total since January 1
21,317 dole. There are sow at least 50,000 barrels of di
awe iting treneport over this railway along its stations.
We find Du Btaav's FOOO the safest remedy for
eiinitipates, ledliestles eennuinplanti, diarrhea. all
smelt', disorder,, acidity. heartburn. palpitation. Irritability,
sloe ,lee.lx•es. Idd`filwoc Aetnkwe7. phlegm, entinertlion. coughs,
&alum, tornitehitii, dysentery, nervosa, hilinna, end liver
dlaordeni, debility —A. I re. St. D.. P.N.S- Dr. Harvey, Dr. More-
land. IR. Campbell, lir. Bud, worm. It eaves GO times Its east
la other renoNilis In link lib.. b. W.: 1211. , tree or raeria,se,
tea —Marry du Barry and le.. 77. Pagratetreet, London 3E, rue
d'ltaiderille, Park. SO, Mouteipie de La Cour, Bruseels..—tAdver-
tleanent.

tab Entelligena.
EQUITY COURTS.—MARca 13.
(Before the Lords Justices of AppeaL)
WINDMAII.-114 LUNACY.

Mr. Barak Q.C., and Mr. Bedwell concluded the cane for ;
the respoodente upon this petition, submitting that, upon
the result of the whole of the voluminous evidence in the
welter, Do case either of suppression of material evidence.
carat zatucpsirentation, or of want of proper caution and

awe in wheeling ths—seidenee for the purpose of obtaining
the order for the inquiry bad been established against them;
still lees of any corrupt motive moving them to apply for
an inquisition. Wherever this had been the cam,
and the inquisition, having been granted, had resulted in •
verdict of sanity, there bad never been an instance in which
the petitioners for the inquiry had been made to pay the
mete of the proceeding& The question did not depend upon
the success or failure of the inquiry to establish insanity,
het entirely upon the good reload faith, or the honesty or
dlibonesiv of the motive with which the order for the in-
quiry bad been obtained.
lir Hugh Cairns, Q.C., is to reply to-morrow (this day).

would be laid before them, they would not entertain the
slightest doubt that the prisoner had destroyed both her
husband and child, and the only question that, in the molt,
they would have to dispose of would be whether at the
time the fearful act was committed she was ill such a state
of mind as to render her criminally responsible.
The witnesses for the prosecution were then examined,
and the facts disclosed were undoubtedly of the most pain-
ful and distressing character. It appeared that the deceased,
at the time he met his death, was about 28 years of age,
and be and the prisoner bad been married seven years,
and four children were the result of their union. When the
melancholy affair took place two children only survived, one
aged le, weeks, and the other about six years. The husband was
•labouring man, and he and the prisoner and the two children
occupied a miserable cottage at Clavering, nearSaff ronWalden
It seemed that the unfortunate man was frequently out of
work, and the family ware in a state of great distress, sail
it appeared that in Dumber of last year the hoshasid was
convicted of breaking a gate, probably to be used for fuel.
For this offence he was fined 10a by the magistrates, and
in default of payment was committed to Hertford Gaol for
a month, and the consequence of this conviction was that
the prisoner and her two children were sent to the union
workhouse. The term of imprisonment to which the hus-
band had been sentenced expired on the 10th of January,
and it appeared that on the 12th the deceased went to
the union workhouse and took the prisoner
and his children away from that establishment.
On the same day they proceeded to the cot-
tage of the father and mother of the deceased, and had
their dinner, and in the Gams afternoon the prisoner, the
children, and the deceased proceeded to their own wretched
home, east the latter was never again seen alive. This
was, as above stated, ou the afternoon of the 12th of
January, but the exact time when the fearful deeds were
committed by the prisoner—although it is coojectured that
they must have occurred at • late hour on the following
night, the 134 h, and that very probably the attack was made
upon the husband while he was asleep—has not been ascer-
tained. The first thing that was seen of the prisoner after-
wards was between one and two o'clock on the morning of
the 14th of January, when she made her appearance at
the house of her own mother, who occupied a cottage
in a village called Langley, • few miles from Clever-
log, carrying in her arms her eldest child. She was
covered with blood, and in a most distressed sad excited
condition. It should be stated that on the day when the
deceased fetched the prisoner and the children from the
union while they were at the house of the father of the
&maid, he read some portions of the Bible to the pri-
soner, and made some reference to that portion of the Holy
Scriptures to which the devil was represented to have
tempted our Saviour, and the pe•eoner made use at that
time of the expression that "the devil frequently tempted
people to cut their throats, and that he had tempted her in
that manner, and she should cut her own throat or her bus-
, hand's before long." Having aroused her mother when let
is, the prisoner exclaimed, "Oh, dear mother, some one has
broke into the cottage, and ham out poor Sari: all to pieces
sod • cart came by, and I got into it and got away.
The prisoner was put to bed by her mother, but she con-
tinued in • very excited condition, and after • short time
had elapsed she addressed her mother, and said, "Dear
mother, do you wish to know what I done it with! if you
did you would tear the hair off my head." ' She continued
raving and talking in a most Incoherent manner, and among
other observations she made use of was one that she wished
her mother had killed her when sloe was born, and said that
if she had done so, it would have been much better for her.
The mother asked her what had become of the baby and
she replied that she had killed it, and she only wished she
was as sure of going to heaven as that child was.
lffr. W. H. Calls, a tradesman at Newport, near Clever-
that upon receiving information of the
aminst"Zinduct at her mothere's house, he proceeded to
maw at Clavering, and arrived there about 9 o'clock
ea the morning of the 14th of January. The first thing
be baud upon entering the cottage was a child crying, and
rgoing into the lower room he observed • large guita-
of blood, which appeared to have flowed completely
though the floor and the ceiling of the upper room. Upon
going up stain he saw the marks of several bloody foot-
steps, as though some person had been walking about from
one room to the other. When he entered the bedroom ha
saw the body of the deceased lying extended on the floor, with
the feet partly under the bed, and he observed that there were
a great number of deep gashes upon his head and face, 50 at
least in number, and be wee quite dead and cold. The
room was dark, and be felt for the child and found it lying
on the bed, and at that time it was alive. Having wrapped
up the body of the child, he returned to the house of the
prisoner's mother at Langley, sad found her still there.
When she saw him, she laid had of hie hand, and buret into
team, and said, "Poor dear Sam is gone, ain't he!' Witness
made her no answer at that time, as there were a good many
people about and the prisoner was is • very excited state,
and he procured a vehicle, in order to wavy her to Newport
and place her in the charge of the pain. As they were
going along, the prisoner addreued him and said,
Poor Sam is gone!' and witness replied, " Yes, be
is." The prisoner then put the question, "And the
child, too' ." sad he said that it was. The prisoner
then said, Yes, I hit the child on the head with a ham-
mer, and poor Sam, while be laid asleep, I took •
and hit him amen the head ; and when I hit him, oh dear,
how he 'scrunched' up his shoulders, aad I splashed on to
him se hard as I maid, and he struggled sheet very much.
All the time I was bitting him what • who there wan on
the resin : they kept on bluodering up sad down stairs."
Witness asked her who she meant was blundering up and
down the stairs, and she replied, "The devil, but -I
was
not afraid, for I stopped in the house an hour and a half
after it, and then I went upstairs again, took bold of
his arm, and aid, 'Poor dear Sam, do you know
me? He made a kind of a groan, and, oh dear, how
I did splash on to him again. The prisoner afterwards
said, " I saw this murder committed two or three months
ago. I maw it as plain as I saw it last night, and I heard
he shrieks and aeUs, but I did not think I had got to do
it." As they were proceeding on their journey the prisoner
again addressed him, and said : " I left my cottage about
12 o'clock at night. I went through the fields and through
the wood, and took my other child with me. I looked at
• good many places to try to float • place to drown it, and
when I found a place, I thought that if I threw it into
the water some one WO' her its shrieks and cries."
Witness then said to her that he wondered she did not
drown herself ; sod she replied, "I intended to do so, but
I thought that if I had but cue day out of Hell—but one day
out of torment, it would be batter for nu." The primmer
made the same statement several times as they were going
along, and she also told him that her husband had used her
very ill, and that he bad told her that if she should die,
and be had another wife, he should treat that wife much
better than be did her.
Mr. Robinson, a surgeon residing at Newport, proved the
dreadful nature of the injuries that were received by the
deceased, and also that they wen all of a character likely
to have been inflicted by a wood-chopper that was produced,
and which was found in the prisoner's cottage, covered with
blood, on the morning after the dreadful occurrence. The
child's death, it appeared, had been occasioned
by • blow from • blunt instrument such as a
hammer. This gentleman also proved that he at-
tended the prisoner professionally after her confine-
ment with the deceased child, and that she was, from cer-
tain causes, suffering from great exhaustion and weakness.
and her state was such as to have bees very Maly to had
to a morbid condition of the beein. /limbo said that he con-
sidered the prisoner was naturally a woman of weak in-
tellect. . . . . .

Mr. Walford having intimated that this wee all the evi-
dence he considered it necessary to produce insupoort of the
prosecution, Mr. Albion said that he believed the sturgeon
of the Union, and a clergyman who bad seen the prisoner
while she was in the workhouse, were present, and he
should like to have ►hem examined.
Mr. Justice File said that if their evidence wee at all cal-
culated to throw any light upon the condition of mind of the
prisoner, be thought that they ought by all means to be
called as witnesses.

Mr. Walford said he would readily agree to his lordship's
suggestion.
Mr. F. Walsh, medical officer to the Saffron Walden
Union, was then examined, and he stated that during the
period the prisoner's husband was in gaol, she was under
his charge in the workhouse, and be considered that her
mind was deranged, and that she was subject to delusions to
such an extent that he felt it necessary to place her under
some restraint, and to direct that she should be watched.
Before she left the union she was getting much better, het
the master of the workhouse would not allow her to leave
the establishment until witness had given a certificate that
she was in a lit condition to do so. She was getting much
better, and he considered she was likely to recover more
rapidly in her own home theta in the union workhouse.
The Rev. Mr. Holdernesse, who hail seen the prisoner
while she was in the union, gave similar evidence, and he
also said that his own impression was that the mind of the
priaoner was very much deranged.
The learned Judge raid it appeared to him that upon the
facts of the CUM, awl the evidence already before them, the
jury would feel themselves justified in returning a verdict
acquitting the prisoner on the paned of insanity, and that
it was not necessary for Mr. Ribton to address them.
The jury expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with
the evidence that had loeeu already adduced, and they accord-
ingly at once returned a verdict that the prisoner was Not
Guilty, on the ground of insanity.
A similar verdict was then taken against the prisoner
upon the second indictment for the murder of her child,
and the learned judge directed that she should be de.
taMed in custody during her Majesty's ph:satire.
The wretched woman, who cried bitterly, and seemed to
be suffering acute mental anguish during the proceedings,
was then removed from the dock by the turnkeys in an
almost unconscious state.

Eliza Ann C74ererton, 28, a Tuber good•lookiog woman.
described am a widow, was indicted for the wilful murder of
her illegitimate child, Emma ebeeerton, by drowning it..
Mr. Pearce and Mr. Martin prosecuted. The prisoner wan
defended by Mr. Phalbriele.
The jury, after •rery br:sldeliberation, returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was ordered to be discharged.
TILE 11URD/al AT DUN NOW.

Henry Sauk, a determined-looking young man, was
charged upon an indictment, and also upon the coroner's
inquisition, with the wilful murder of James Berber.
Ur. Watford and Yr. Phiihrith prosecuted, and the pei-
soesewu defended by Mr. Woo Sett.
The aeons imputed to the peewee was only committed
an last Saturday, and the facts, which were reported in our
Tuesday's impression, will be fresh is the I,llWCtien of the
public. An application was made to the learned judge on

Wednesday by the prisoner's counsel that the trial might be
postponed to the summer assises, but his lordship said he
bad looked at the depositions,, and did not see anything in
them that appeared to justify him in consenting to the
postponement of the case ; but if the prisoner desired to
have an opportunity of producing witnesses, and made the
application on that ground, be would readily accede to it.
Mr. Woollen subsequently withdrew his application, and
the trial was consequently proceeded with.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter, and
he was sentenoed to ten years' penal servitude.
Civil Side.—(Before Mr. Justice Wightman and a Special
Jury.)

RANDERS V. TUE EASTERS COUNTIES RAILWAY CONYANY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is an
old man engaged in the occupation of a well-sinker, to re-
cover damages from the defendants for toes be had sustained
by reason of his son being killed upon their railway, as was
alleged through their negligence.
Mr. Serjeant Shee and Mr. Butler Rigby were counsel for
the /plaintiff ; and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Buahby ap-
peared for the company.
The ow on the part of the plaintiff was that on the
night of the 20th of December his sow was in the act of
crossing a tramway near the Victoria Docks, whet a goods
train was shunted upon it without any notice, and the con-
sequence was that he was knocked down and killed. The
cue on behalf of the company was that the parties shouted
out loudly to him, that lights were held up. and every
reasonable precaution taken, but that the deceased walked
on acmes the lines smoking his pipe, and that the accident
that happened to him arose entirely from his own want of
caution.
The jur► returned a verdict for the defendant'.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT. —HuNTnionow, MARca 13,

The Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Mr. Baron Martin
arrived yesterday-, and the bitter learned judge having opened
the commission attended Divine service.
This morning business was commenced at 10 o'clock, the
Lord Chief Baron presiding in the csown court, and Mr.
Baron Martin at mai mins.
The calendar contains the names of 17 prisoners, a heavy
list for so small a county, and the offences are of a serious
character. There are two charge* of burglary, one of child
murder, three of arson, one assault with intent, &c., two of
robberies with violence, one of attempting to commit suicide
by taking laudanum, and the remaining charges are of •
trivial character. There are but two causes in the list.
The cases tried to-day were not of sufficient interest to call
fora report.

OXFORD CLUDIIIT.--911. --ATFORD, MARCH 13.
csows Oocarr.—(Before Mr. Buys ChaaseL)
THZ GOVILISMENT nosccunox Or TER ItiV. IL Y.
=MIL

Horatio Samuel Fletcher, *clerk, was arraigned charged
with " being then trustee of the several and respective sums
of money hereinafter specified, for a certain public purpose
(that hi to say), for the savings bank at Billiton, did unlaw-
fully,
with intent to defraud, convert and appropriate the '
mm of 1001.," on the Ist, Nth, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of
Januari, 1859, all respectively, and on the 25th of March,
1861, •to and for his own use and purpose," in all 0001.
Mr. Serjeant Pigott and Mr. Dowdeswell were for the
prosecution • and Mr. Matthews was for the prisoner.
The learned serjeant said that he appeared on be-
half of the Crown officers to prosecute the prieoner,
who was charged with • serious misappropriation of
moneys which had oome into his hands u officer of
the Billiton Savings Bank. Mr. Fletcher was apparently
persoem who had gained the confidence of the greater part
aotr the residents of Bilston, and was elected by them to
the perpetual curacy of Bilston some time before the year
1838. From that time to this Mr. Fletcher bad filbd the
office of perpetual curate. There was established in Bilston
in the year 1838 • savings bank. In 1839 Mr. Fletcher
became trustee of that bank, and, in the same year, secre-
tary also. In 1849 he became further the treasurer as well
as monetary ; and he continued to fill the several offices
named up to July, 1881 ; and filling thou offices, and not
being subject to the wholesome checks which should have
surrounded him, be was able to commit the irregularities—
he was induced to say frauds, but the jury would have to
say if they were—with which he was now charged. After
the 20th of November, 1844, the prisoner received 501. a
year for his services as secretary. It was part of
the prisoner's duty to keep • deposit book in which the
several items deposited were entered against the senses of
the respective depositors, and also to enter the same items
in each depositor's pass book. The deposit book and the
depositors pass books must therefore correspond. It was,
however, also necessary that an annual statement should be
made out and supplied to the Commissioners for the B.edac-
tion of the National Debt, andel.° published. Fortunately,
and as a further check to the annual returns, the Commis-
sional' for the Reduction of the National Debt wisely re-
solved in 1854 to ask—for they could not compel—the ma-
nagers of savings banks to fluvial them with • weekly
statement of the affairs of the bank, the Lit weekly state.
meat to be made up to the 20th of November each year.
Mr. Fletcher bad conducted the affairs of the bank for 13
years without any practical supervision, no use interfering
except occasionally the name of • Mr. Beatield appeared on
the weekly returns as • witness to their accuracy ;
but that gentleman did not teat their accuracy, taking
it for granted thee *Loy were correct ae presented
to him. The proceedings were brought not under
the Savings Bank Let, but under the Fraudu-
lent Trustees Aet, bemuse under the Savings Bank
Act he would have to be charged for not having anointed
to the treasurer. Bung, however, that he was treasurer as
well as secretary, and as he could not well be said not to
have accounted to himself, he could not be charged under
that act. Fortunately the Fraudulent Trustees Act, which
was of very recent date, provided for such an emergency,
and made the misappropriation by any trustee of any pro-
. .

perty a miedentiabitir, ;• offence with which Mr. Fletcher
was now charged. Matters continued to be conducted at the
Bilfiton Bank in the loose manner hehad indicated up to Ape%
1861, the prisoner holding the respective offices of truth"
manager, secretaryoraetuary, and treasurer. Atthat date a
new committee of management was appointed. Then the
discoveries were made. The frauds which were then
brought to light had a double application. The deposit
ledger end the depositor.' passbooks haying of necessity to
agree, the entries in three books were kept correct, but
those in the weekly and annual returns were falsified. The
amounts received were returned as less than the real
amount, and the amount of outgoings was returned as lees,
and in this way upwards of 13,0001. bad been misappro.
prated. A writ bad been served upon Mr. Fletcher by the
trustees and the committee of management for even a hew
sum than had been discovered to have been abstracted, sod
ha bad allowed judgment to go by default, thus confeedeg
his guilt.
Evidence was given by Mr. J. Tided Pratt, Mr. John
Hawksford (the present actuary), and the Rev. J. H. Hat-
field (the trustee and manager referred to by Serjeant
Pigott), and it bore out the opening.
It transpired that a dividend of the value of Ile had
already been paid, that a further dividend of about 2a. 6.1.
was already in hand ; and that but for this prosecution the
committee of management had hoped to have realised the
full 20a in the pound.
His Lordship remarked upon the position in which the
committee of management would be placed if it could be
amorefully shown that they ware attempting to treat this
offence se a civil csae.

Mr. Matthews, before addressing the jury, maintained
that neither according to the terms of his appointment u
trustee of the bank, nor according to the ruins of the bank,
under which he was treasurer, had the pnsoner offended
spinet the terms of the Fraudulent Trustees Act.
Serjeant Pigott, having to leave for the Nit Prins Court,
the reply devolved upon
Mr. Dowdrewell, who maintained that the prisoner, in his
double impiety of trustee and secretary, wee trustee to
all intents sod purposes.
His Lordship admitted that the case was a very !pave rind
serious one, and adjourned the case till the following morn-
ing ; in the meantime be would confer with his brother
Crompton.
The prisoner was admitted to bell till the next morning.

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Bli:akth Williams, an old Scotch woman, was charged
with being drunk and begging. The &fondant, who has
been charged at this court about 150 times with drunken-
ness and begging, a monthly nurse, and a source of great
trouble to the police.
Bovoy, 85 C, proved seeing the defendant seize hold of a
gentleman and beg. being drunk at the time.
Mr. Yardley—Why, here you are again. It is only about
a week since you were here last.
Barnes, the gaoler, said that the defendant had been
three times to the court since his worship last committed
her for a month.

Defendant, with a broad Scotch accent, said she had been
suddenly called out to one of her ladies. She did not want
to beg, as she bad an income as long as she lived from her
mother's lir, Aber, James Thompson.
Mr. Yardley—You are one of the mood expensive burdens
In the kingdom, as yon pain the greater part of your time
in prison. I shall see if we can't get some of your moans,
and apply it to support you while in prison.
Defeoant—The police insult me by calling me " Mother
Williams."

Mr. Yardley—lf any one does so I will punish him, bat
you have told me so many lies when you have been before
me that I cannot believe you.
Defendant—lodeed, I know myself better. I had better
bringiego-up than to Millie'. (Laughter.)
Bovey said she was so drunk that she could scarcely walk.
Defendant—l'm a nurse ; gad, upon my honour, I bad
only had a cup of tea. I bops I know myself better thaw
to drink. (Laughter.)
Mr. Yardley—l shall oommit you for three days.
Defoodent—When I oome out VU -

Mr. Yardley—What !
Defendant (who evidently was a match for the magistrate),
after a panee—Come sod see you again. (Loud laughter.)
Defeodant left the bar evidently pleued at Naples •
loafer term of imprisonment.

DISPATCH or Muse.—The Liverpool, Quebec,
and Montreal Royal Mail NUMMI Nova Scotian was de-
spatched from Liverpool for Portland yesterday (Thursday)
with the Canadian and United States mails, 85 paarmagurs.
and eerie.