The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

Katz intelligence.

BIRNIINGRIAM DISTRICT COURT OF BANK-

ItUPTCY.—YZATIIIIDAY.
Etron Ma. C. WATSIMILD, 11.earami.

TUN 8101:11111LIDOR ♦ND BkoNlBol[o- If• BANILII.- IN AN

WITFOILD •ND 1.1.0011.
Courts were held at htourbridge as Tuesday and at
Bromagrove yesterday, according to appointment, for the
proof of deb!' under these bankruptcies. The arrange-
ments were made with the view to obviate inconvenience

and eapense to creditors holding the notes of then,
establishments.
Mr. !forward, solicitor, of Stourbridge, was in attendance
fur the assignees.
The :only question of soy importance which arose was
with :regard to -:?oft tendered by the treasurers and
trustees of mum
benefit ann. meivtice, who
ehmuc4. to be paid in full of their s..eurities. it Tao
' objected that they were only entitled to receive
the dividend of an individual creditor. This point basl:,,ca
frequently dismissed, and Sirius. decisions have teen given
by the Comminioncrs of lionkruptcy. Mr. Waterfield
ultimately noolved to receive the proofs, subject, upon the
point in dispute, to an argument and decision in the court
at Birmingham, which he tiled fur the 21th of January.
The proofs at fitourbridee on Tuesday amounted to
11,0001., and of this sum there was ono deposit debt of up-
wards of 10,00 W. The rest w.is in issue notes. The proofs
at Itruonnstrove ye.tinlay were between 4,00 W. and 6,01101.
As far as the investigation into the al airs of these establish-
ments have proceeded they afford little evidence as to their
ultimate amets. The rehab:lily is that the dividend will
by extremely small.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COU ILT. —YESTERDAY.
Mama Ka. Basso Purr.
THE MCRDER lY MAIIIILICRONE.

After our report of yesterday was despatched,
Mr. Ballantine, upon the return of the jury, proceeded
to address them for the prisoner. After alluding to the
dreadful character of the charge, he mid it was needless for
him to remind them that upon the verdict they gave the life
of the wretched man at the bar depended ; but although he
was sure that this would not operate in any way to deter
them from performing their duty, and that if the evidence
satisfied them that the prisoner had committed the crime of
wilful murder they would say so by their verdict, yet
he felt assured at the same time that they would listen
patiently to any observathns tending to show he was not
guilty of that offence, and if there was any weight to be at-
tached to them, that they would cheerfully tome to that con-
clusion and find, the prisoner guilty only of the leern offence
of manslaughter. The karned counsel then proceeded to
comment upon the farts of the case. He submitted that
the evidence all tended to show that the only object the
prisoner originally had in view was to obtain pi:suasion of
the boxes and their contents, and he said that if he had
really intended to destroy his wife, it was not likely he
would have purchased such an instrument as a file, but he
would have procured a knife, or some similar weapon,
which would much more readily have answered the pur-
pose. Again, he said it was nut likely, if, as was'
suggested, the prisoner went to the residence of the de-
ceased on the night in question with the deliberate inten-
tion to destroy her, that he would have taken the boy
Bruton along with him, and :the jury might rea-
sonably infer that he had no such intention, but that the
act was committed upon some sudden quarrel and excite-
meat between the parties upon the subject of the boxes
which the prisoner claimed. The evidence of the lodgers
in the house showed clearly that the parties hail quarrelled,
and the jury would bear in mind that in the midst of the
altercation the prisoner was heard to exclaim that he did
not want anything of his wife, but that he was deter.
mined to have the property that belonged to him.
The learned counsel commented at considerable length
upon all the points in the evidence which lie con-
sidered favourable to the pris met, and concluded
• very able speech by earnestly entreating the
jury to look charitably and mercifully upon the case of his
wretched client, and expressing a confident hope that they
would return such • verdict as would obviate the necessity
of destroying another life, in addition to the one that had
already been sacrificed in this melancholy transaction.
The learned Judge then proceeded to sum up the case to
the jury with his usual care, clearness, and impartiality.
lie said it appeared to be admitted that the unfortunate
deceased had met her death at the handisof the unhappy
man e the bar, and the learned counsel who ap-
peared for the prisoner appeared to have directed his effirts
on his behalf solely to endeavour to induce them
to acquit him of the crime of wilful and deliberate murder,
and find him guilty only of the crime of manslaughter.
He had Alm appealed to their mercy, but it was his duty
to tell them that they had no right to give effect to any
such considerations, and that the oath they had taken u
jurors bound them to return a verdict according to the '
evidence irrespective of any consequincis that might en-
sue. His lordship then explained to the jury the dis-
tinction in law between murder and manslaughter,
and, having gone minutely through the whole of the
evidence, he said that if they could see any cir-
cumstances in this CAM which they considered justi-
fied them in coming to the conclusion that the act of
the prisoner did not amount to the crime of wilful
murder, they would acquit him of that crime and find him'
guilty only of the minoroffence ; but, upon the other hand,
if they should feel that the evidence left no reasonable
doubt that the prisoner had wilfully destroyed the life of
his wife, in that case their duty to their country and the
sanctity of their oaths demanded that they should say so by
their verdict.

Mr. Baßaptiste, at the close of his lordship's summing
up, said he had omitted to examine some witnesus who
were in attendance to speak to the prisoner's character,
and he asked as a matter of indulgence that he should now
be permitted to do so?
Mr. Baron Platt said that in a cue of this description,
although it was out of the ordinary course, the witnesses
might be examined.
Several persons who hail known the prisoner a great
many years were accordingly called as witnesses, and they
described tho• prisoner as being a quiet, humane, well•con•
ducted man.

The jury retired at twenty minutes to five and did not
return until aix o'clock, when they returned their verdict,
deelarisur the prisoner thrifty of manslaughter.
Mr. Baron Platt immediately proceeded to paw sentence.
He said that the prisoner had been found guilty by a must
considerate and a moat merciful jury of the crime of man
slaughter, and it was now the duty of the court to pose a sen-
tence upon him such as would mark their sense of the charac-
ter of his offence, and afford an example to others likely to
deter them from the commission of a similar crime. Upon
what grounds the jury had rested their verdict it was not
fur him to enquire ; it was the province of the jury to de-
cide upon the facts; and whatever might be the opinion of
the great majority of the hearers of the evidence in the
present ease upon the subject, the court must act upon the
verdict of tho jury alone. It was impossible not to see,
however, the enormity of the offence he had committed.
He had destroyed, in the moat barbarous manner, the wife
of his bosom, whom he had sworn to protect and cherish,
and, as it would appear without any real motive whatever.
It was true, he had endeavoured to suggest that sho had
been unfaithful to his bed ; but it was due to the
memory of the unhappy woman to state that there
did not appear by the evidence to be any ground
for the accusation, although there was too much
I reason to believe that jealousy had been the cause of the
crime, and that his expression when be heard of the death
of his unhappy wife, that now he was at rest," showed
clearly that he was actuated by a feeling of deadly revenge.
The court, under these circumstances, felt bound to show
that such an offence could nut s scope with entire impunity,
although in soma eases it was enabled to do so partially, by
passing upon him the sentence that he be transported be-
yond the scan for the term of his natural life.
The case concluded the btlPillett of the session, the trial
of Davis and Ileilbron for • fraudulent bankruptcy and
conspiracy, and several others being postponed, and the court
adjourned to Monday, Feb. 2.

NEW COURT.—YESMWAY
MMUS Co.*MO 14.11,1W.T.
George CorbiaAly, 31, clerk, pleaded guilty to forging and
uttering sa acceptance to a bill of exchange with en iuteut
to defraud.

The Comm eadeset rid there were other charges of
a similar elbanater wire the prisoner, and ordered ham to
be trumpeted abli SWIM jean,
This elm and ocean for felony which resulted in an ac-
quittal, was all the business on the list, and after it bad
been disposed of the court adjourned.

THIRD COURT—YarmaDAy.
Emus PEE Eionosa.
ATTEMPTED FRAUD ON ♦ CAUMET.

looepA Feral um, alias Cos, 32, teac►er, wan indicted for
attempting to obtain from Anthony Brown and others the
sum of 1001., with intent to cheat and defraud them.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Clarkson said the charge against the prisoner was
for attempting to obtain a loan from Willson's Charity, the
objects of which are well kn.iwn, and he had attempted to
do so by giving Lase addresses, both as far in he himself
and the proposed securities were concerned, which was at
once discovered.

Mr. Payne said that one thing in prisoner's favour was
the bungling way the fraud had been attempted, as it
showed he was no adept in crime.
The prisoner, upod being rolled on for judgment, said
that he had been drawn into it by others, and begged fur
RIM].
The Recorder told him that having expressed contrition
by his plea of guilty, he should not suit him with so severe
a sentence Ili he otherwise should have dose, had the case
gone to Uhl ; and he, as one of the tthatees of the charity,
wished it to he known that the onteen employed by the
trustees were most vigilant ones, and the strictest inquiries
were always aide, so that any attempt at fraud we. certain
of detection.

He was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and
bard labour.
IiZeRIVING STOLIN GOODS.
Levi Tobroa, 37, desler, was indicted for feloniously re-
ceiving 174 pairs of gloves, valued at 151., and other pro-
mty, belonging to Henry Willson, knowing it to have
bees stoke. _ .

George Trim, oat of the City detective police, stated that
frame Nei information that had been given, he and Webb,
another City officer, went, on Dee. 20, to a beer-vhnp in the
Landon-road, from which they could see the shop k apt by
the primmer, No. 43, Loudon-rood. Alter being there
am time, they sow him ems oat with a largo biro beg,
whichaward to be staled IQ. Be went skims the met