The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1863.

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HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
Sittings after Michaelmas Term, 1983.
BEFORE TUE Loan CHANCRLIA.R. -At Linde's-him-Thursday,
Dec. 3. the first seal, appeal motions and appeals Friday. 4.
petitions and appeala ; Saturday. 5, appeals lu hankrnmcy and
appeal: Monday. 7, Tuesday. 8. appeals: Wednesday. 9, ap-
peals in bankruptcy and appeals : Thursday, 10, the second seal,
appeal motiens and appeals; Friday, 11, appeals : Saturday, 12,
appeals in hank, uptc and appeals Monday. 14, Tuesday. 15,
appeals ; Weduesday,y 16, appeals in bankruptcy and appeals
Thursday, 17, the Oiled seal, appeal motion, and appeals Ftiday,
18, appeals; Saturday, 19, appesis In bankruptcy an-I appeal:
Manila,. 21, appeals; Tuewiay, 22, petitions and appeals.
Barium The ilasran OF THE ROLL!. -At Chaacery-lane.-
Thursday, Dec. 3. the Oral eta], motions, and general paper:
Minty. 4, general paper: Saturday, 5, petitions, short causes,
adjourned summon ea, and general paper; Monday, 7, Tues.
day, 9, and Weduesday, 9, general paper: Thursday, 10, the
second seal, motions and general paper Friday, 11, general
paper Saturday, 12, petitions, abort causes, adjouroed sum-
monses, and general paper; Monday, 16, Tuday, 14 and Wed-
nesday. 16. general paper: Thursday, 17, the third seal. motions
and general paper; Friday, 18, general paper: Saturday, lit
petitions, short causes, adjow nett summonses, and general
paper. Monday, 21, and Tuesday, 22, general paper. N.R.-Un-
oppaed petitions must be presented and copies left with the
secretary on or before the Thursday preceding the Saturday on
which it is Intended they should be heard, and an causes
intended to be heard as short causes must be so m at lead
o--e clear day before the sanic can be put in the paper to be so
beard.
BILIVRI THE LORDS JORTICES. -At Llncoln'ainis.-Tbunday,
Dec. 3, the first seal, appeal motions and appeals ; Friday, 4,
petitions ha lunacy, appeal petitions and appeal: Saturday, 5,
Monday, 7, Tuesday, 9, Wednesday, 9, appeals : Thursday, 10,
the second seal, appeal motions and appeals Friday, 11, petd-
tious iu lunacy, appeal petitions. and appeals Saturday, IE,
nday, 14. Tuesday, 15, Wednesday, 16, appeals; Thaday,
17, the third ad, appeal motions and appeals: Friday, 16
petitions In lunacy, appeal petitions, and appeal: Saturday, 19,
Monday, 2i, Today, 22, appeals. Notice.-The days It any)
on which the Lords Justices shall be sapped In full court, or at
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ale excepted.
Bkfulil SHE VICI-CIIANCII.IOII SIR BJCHLID T. Klalatlsl.lr.

-At Liu~hin'sdnu.-Tbnrsday, Iles. 9, tirdseal, mot
adjourned snminolues, end general paper: Friday, 4, petitions,
adjourned summonses, and general paper; Saturday, 5, short
muses, adjourned summonses, and general paper: Monday, 7,
Tuesday, s. Wednesday, 9, general paper: Thursday, 10, the
sea and seal, motions, adjoarued summonses, and general paper ;
Friday. 11, petitions, adjourned summonses, and general paper;
Saturday, 14 sheet cause's, adjourned summonses, and general
paper: Monday, 14, Tuesday, 15, Wednesday, 16. general paper.
Thursday, 17, the third seal, mottoes, adjourned summonses, and
general paper: Friday, IS, petitions, adjourned summonses, and
general paper; Baturday, 19, short causes, adjourned summonses,
end general paper ; Monday. 11, Tumidity. V. general paper.
N.D.-Any causes intended to be heard as short causes must be
so marked at least one clear day before the maze can be put In
the paper to be so heard.
BITORE SHE V.CE-CRAWELLOR SIR .1011/1 STVARS.-At Lt
colu'ainn.-Tblusday, Dec. 3, the end teal, motions, mamas,
&a; Friday, 4, petitions, causes, de.: Saturday. 6, short causes,
muses, he.: Monday, 7, Tuesday, e, Wednesday, 9, mama, de.:
Thursday, 10, the second seal, motions, nines, U.; Prlday,
petitions, causes, dc.; Saturday. 12, short came, mama, de.;
Ron-
da 14, Tuesday. 15, Wednesday, 16, causes, de.; Shandy. 17. the
third seal, mottoes, causes, he.; Friday, 18, petition, causes,
he.; Saturday, 19, short causes, causes, he.; Monday, 21, Tues-
day, 22, causes, he. N.B. Any causes Intended to be heard as
short causes must be so marked et least one clear day before the
seine can be put In the paper to be so thud. No cause, motion
for decree, or further consideration, except by order of the
court, may be marked to stand over, if it shall be within 1$ of
the lest cause or matter in the printed paper of the day for
beering.
BM= SUR VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR W. P. Woom-At Us.
role'sinn.-Thursday, Dec. 3, the Ant seal, motions and general
paper ; Frid general genera: paper Saturday. 5, petitions, short
causes, sad paper ; Monday, 7, 'Tuesday, 8, Wednes-
day, 9, general paper , Thursday, 10, the second seal, mottons
and general paper: Friday, 11, general paper; Saturday, Ik,
.itiens. sisal causes, and general paper ; Monday, 14, Tnes
day, IS, Wednesday, le, general paper ; Thursday, 17, the third
mat, motions, and general paper ; ld general papa:
Saturday, 19, petitions, short canoes, end general paper ; Mon-
day, 21, Tuesday, V., general paper. N.B. Any causes intended
to be heard as short taus s must be so marked at least one clear
day before the sense can be put in the paper to be so heard.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Recorder .)

Ads Yates, wino was brought to the court in the custody
of coo of the warden of Milbank Prism, where he is at
present undergoing a sentence of ten years' penal servitude,
was charged with having committed wilful and corrupt
perjury before Alderman Humphery, at the Guildhall
police-court. on the 7th of May last.
We gave the particulars of the case in our yesterday's
mprosion.
Benjamin Everett, the prosecutor, was called as a
witness. He was brought into noun in the custody of two
warders belonging to Millbank Prison, and was handcuffed
while he was being examined. It will not be necessary to
give his evidence at length, and it will be sufficient to state
that he denied all knowledge of the fact deposed to by the
defeltdant, and declared that he did not see him on the 18th
of December. He also stated that he had for several years
carried on the business of a grocer and cheseemoeger, and
had saved =cosy by that moupatioe. He was afterwards
be said, occupied in the business of a papsr.staluer, and in
that be was also succereftil, and at the time he was appre-
hended be had saved 2,13001., which was invested in the
funds.

• This witness was subjected to • very severe croes-exami
motion by Mr. Ebbw., and in answer to questious that were
put to him, he said that 18 years ago be less charged with
another person with being concerned in a robbery of a
watch, and they were both convicted, and sentenced to nine
months' impriaoament, but he declared that he was inno-
cent. After became out of raison be said his friends set
him up in business, and be got married. His relations he
considered gave him a start of 5001., and three of his sisters
gave him 1001 each in gold, without the knowledge of their
husbands, and be said that all his good fortune came to him
after his conviction for felony. He denied positively having
aid to Sergeant lambert, the officer who took him into
custody, that it wss aob, and he hoped he would help
him over it, or that he bad stated that he would give the
prosecutor 1001. if he would not appear against him, and he
said that although he bad sworn that be did so at the trial,
it was not true. He also said that he considered five of the
witnesses who were examined against him had committed
Peri
In rower to equalities.) put by the learned Recorder, at
the causation of Mr. Ribton, Everett stated that he was
very much surprised at receiving a subp®n to attend at the
trial of Simpson, and he was told while it was going on that
he was being brought into the case, and when he heard
this be instructed a barrister to watch the proceedings on
hi behalf.

Yn Everett, the wife of the prosecutor, was then exa-
mined, end she stated positively that Yates did Dot come to
her kastisod's hums on the night he mentioned, and some
other witnesses IMO ogled whale evidence went to show
that the defendant had made some statement to the effect
that be intended to being Ben Everett into it. It was also
proved that on the 9th of December the defendant wan io
custody in Horsemcmger-lane Gaol, and remained there
until the 30th, so that, of cone, it was physically impoesi•
hie that be could have been at the hours of Everett as the
18th of that month, or that the hensection to which he re.
fated could have taken place on that day.
Ribton, in his address to the jury for the defendant,
mid that be quite concurred in the observations thatbad been
made by the learned comma for the prosecution u to
the neuesity that existed for • public prosecutor, and
he also admitted that it was an anomaly that where
the question in dispute was a trumpery bill of exchange, or
some trifling article of property, a new trial might be oh.
tamed, while no such power wee granted where the fife or
liberty of a man was at stake. At the same time, however,
he felt booed to express his conviction that from the
mauler in which criminal cases were investigated, no jury
ever retuned • verdict of guilty against • prisoner baler
spa agridosat of the most clear and conclusive description ;
and he would also remind them that it would be • very
dangerous thing—not only as regarded the administration of
the criminal law, but also with reference to the misty of
the public, and to every one who came forward to prosecute
or to give evidence against an offender—if the deliberate
verdict of • jury were to be set amide upon light fanciful
groaada. The 4nry would understand that he had so feeling
of sympathy with the &feeds* who stood before them •
convicted felon, sod was no doubt associated with a samber
of other persons who were enemies to the whole respectable
community, but the question wee whether on this particular
ocossioe he bad made a false statement against the pron-
to; Everett, upon hie oath. be then observed that It was
quite clear that the object of the present prosecution was
to obtain the conviction of the defendant, in order that
through that conviction Everett, the prosecutor, might be
able to go to the Secretary of State and ask him for a par-
don. The learned counsel then proceeded to observe upon
the aooount that had been given. by Everett of himeeif, and
he asked the ury whether they could believe the state.
meets he bad made as to the manner in which be came
into possession of so lugs • sum of money es 2,6001., and
whether it was not much more likely that it had Nel ac-
quired by the dishonest mode suggested during the present
Inquiry. He thee proceeded to comment upon the whole
of the facts, and said it appeared to him that the eircum-
Ammo of the defendant being in prison at the time he repro-
muted he went to Everett's boom we. to be explained by
haviog made a mistake as to the date, and that the
treauction took place before be was sent to gaol,
and he concluded a very able speech by calling upon the
jury not to disturb the confidence that was at present re-
posed in the administration of justice in this country, upon
iamb bats as appeared in the prompt cue.
The Recorder, in summing up, said he did not propose to
follow either of the learned counsel in the observation they
had made as to the mode in which the law was at meant
administered. All they could do was to administer it as it
existed to the best of their ability, and it appeared to him
that such observations were calculated to embarrass the
minds of the jury and divert their attention from the real
question they bad to decide. He then called their atten-
tion to all the material facts, and said that the only question
they had to decide was whether the defendant had been
proved to their satisfaction to have wilfully stated, upon
bit aatb, that which he knew was not trite.

The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Noe
Gritty.

Ames Hare, an elderly man, surrendered to take his trial
pea ac indictment charging him with feloniously wounding
iceasl Dosmavon, with intent to do him grievous bodily
bum. _

The prisoner and the prosecutor were both Irishmen, the
former being godfather to the latter, and the occurrence
appeared to have arisen out of a quarrel between thou. It
appeared that on the night of the 22nd November the pri.
sonar and the prosecutor were drinking at a public house in
Diary-lane, and both having become somewhat affected
with the drink which they had taken, they quarrelled, and
according to the statement of the prosecutor, the prisoner
struck him, and a draggle ensued, in which the prisoner
threw him on the ground and stabbed him in several places,
one striking him in the eye and cut his eye completely out.
He was conveyed to the hospital, where he wee properly
attended, but his left eye was completely destroyed,- and the
sight of the other very materially affected. Aooordieg to
the testimony of the medical gentleman, the injury was in-
Rioted with some sharp instrument. It appeared, however,
that the prisoner went with him to the hospital, and they
both appeared on very friendly terms, and after leaving the
hospital the prosecutor stopped some days at the prisoner's
house before he took proceedings.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the minor offenos
of ualawfolly wounding. and the Recorder sentenced him
to 12 months' imprisonment.

THE POLICE COURTS.