The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JULY 14, 1852.

Matra: Thlegraph Company, at York, as an inspector
for the district, and it was part of his d ter to pay
the wages of the men placed with r him. For :los purpose
he Ice rived rimittani e s from the hrad office is London, und
wa. required to pro., at • fortnightly account. In one of
these accounts he inserted a clamp of 2r. Bs., purporting to
hare Isscat paid ton person mauled troa.kill, oust Illaochant
had SOIL a receipt for it, with Croaskill's bigamists..
which was a forgery. Crosskill, moreover, had never re-
ceived the 2t. Bs.

It soar, there was no room between the bridge and the
steamer for the beet to get clear The mate relieved ti e
captain a few seconds before the accident happened.
Wiliam Neu], a weterman, living at No. I, Whitefrian-
street, NSW Coo collision from the shore. Ile observed the
steamer flest being just shove Illaekfriars-bridge. She
steered from the Temple fur the fourth arch of the bridge,
&oil the small boat was conduit through the fourth arch at
the time the steamer was eased, but nevertheless she came
in contact with the boat, and the people in her standing up
at the time, she war capsized. Four or fire men were rowing
in the boat. It was the stern and not the paddl.:-box that
struck the stern of the boat.
Some further evidence of a similar nature was then gone
Mtn, and the case was adjourned till Monday.
The prisoner was in the meanwhile admitted to bail.
WESTMINSTER.

Iho jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to be transported for ten yean. He lan a wife and
three children, and had borne a very good character in the
city, where he has resided fur some years.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YEaTEUDAT.
&Ural{ Its. BW.nt ADAM, AIIIIPTANT
John Reenan, 30, • private in the Coldstream Guards,
and Mary Ann Berate, 21, were indicted, the latter for
stealing, and the former fur feloniously receiving a cash-
box, containing 1201. in Bank notes, gold and silver, the
property and money of Robert Townsend.
Ihe trial of this ease lasted the greater portion of the
day, but its principal features may be stated thus briefly.
The female prisoner, who it was stated was the daughter of
an E'sex farmer, was in the service of the prosecutor, the
landlord of the Grapes Tavern, in Potter-street, New-
port-market, and it appeared that on the 7th of last month
he was about to pay the money she now stood charged with
having stolen to Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., his
brewers. On coming down stairs, on the morning of that
day, he brought down with him `is cash-box, containing
thereabout the sum mentioned in the indictment,
and placed it in • cupboard in the bar-parlour,
while he had breakfast. She waited on him, and had
ample opportunity to see where he put the boa,
and it would seem that having determined on purloining it,
she made an excuse that she wanted to go to a relative* for
the purpose of getting • gown washed. No objection was
made to her doing so, and while the attention of the prow-
cuter was called to the bar by customers, she kept going in
and out of the bar-parlour, and oat one occasion wit seen at
the cupboard in a manner that led to the inference after the
robbery was discovered that she took that opportunity te
wrap the cash-box up in the gown, for immediately after
she was seen at the cupboard she left with a bundle under
her arm. Within a few minutes of her leaving the house
the prosecutor went to the cupboard, when to his amaze-
ment he found that the box was gone. She returned about
12 o'clock with the gown, bet she denied all knowledge of
the rerbery. It was proved in evidence, that on that morning
she went direct from the prosecutor's house to a public-bouee
near the Wellington Barracks, where the other prisoner
was stationed, and sent • messenger to tell him that she
desired to see him. After that, but before she returned to
the prosecutor's, they were wen in various places in com-
pany, and in the course of the morning she did call at her
sister-in-law's, about washing a gown, but she found that
the prosecutor had already been there, and had detailed the
particulars of the robbery, in consequence of which the
sister-in-law refused to let her leave the dress. When in
the House of Detention she was visited by her sister-in-
law, who exhorted her to tell the truth, when she replied
that if she did, Retain would be the death of her, and Hog
one could not be punished without the other. Abell
week before the robbery Itecnan was in the prosiest/We
house in the company of another soldier, but the primmer
Bacon, who was behind the bar at the time, did not appear
to • him. A female who was locked up in the
tame cell as llama at the pollee court, spoke of • conversa-
tion which she Mae* had with another prisoner, in the
course of which she remarked that the rubbery was not
done cleverly ; and a private in the Coldstream', who ad-
mitted that he had been three times tried by court-martial,
and had been Is prison for stealing • watch, deposed to
having visited Remark in the House of Detention. That
he got him into conversation about the robbery, when the
prisoner, having confidence in him, told him to go to a
person, whom he named, employed at the London-bridge
Railway, and ask him for the cash-box, as he knew where
it was, in a water-closet. That in the course of a second
conversation he expressed disappointment that the person
referred to hod not been to see him; and that he said a
mistake had been made as to the amount of money the
box contained—it was not 1201., but 801. " good." None
of the money had been found or traced.
The learned counsel addressed the jury for their respective
clients, and—
The Assistant Judge having summed up,
The Jury, after deliberating fur some time, found both
prisoners Guilty.
The character of the prisoner liecnan in the regiment
was not of the best kind. The colour-sergeant stated
that he had never been charged with dishonesty, but he
had with desertion. and things of that sort.
The Assistant Judge said his impression was that the
female prisoner had been made the complete dupe and
tool of Heenan, but he had no evidence on which he could
act to that effect.

Chas. Collins, a Mariid7l;laby-geiiteel appearance, up-
wards of sixty years of age, wu charged with fraudulently
obtaining a portrait of the Right lion. the Earl of Desert. ,
Henry Cox, butler to the Earl of Desert, 4, Chesbam-
place, Belgian-square, said that the prisoner, after
writing to his lordship, came to his mansion in the SU011114:(
of 1848, and had an interview with him. Ills object in
writing and coming was to obtain his lordship's portrait, to
have a copy engraved from it. Prisoner subsequently sent
a man for the portrait in 1818, and it was taken away by
him. About fire weeks ago his lordship received the fol-
lowing letter enclosing a pawnbroker's ticket of the por-
trait :
" 1, Cambridge-street, Lower-road, Islingtoa,
June 12, 18.52.
" My Lord,—l have really now no other remedy but to
write to your lordship and disarm, what must be to mu meet
loinful. I struggles but failed in my efforts to publish your
rdship's portrait in my national work of eminent conser-
vatives, end during the whig administration my efforts were
all in vain. A distress on my property was the result, and
in order to save the property of others, I was compelled to
adopts most disagreeable mode to do so. Your lordship's
portrait, amongst the rest, is in perfect safety at a consider-
able expense to myself. How, my lord, I rejoiced when
Lord Derby's government was installed ! I made myself
quite certain of conquering ray difficulties, by proceeding
with my national work; and my resolution was formed to
place your portrait in hand forthwith ; but, my lord. noel
pected troubles have come upon me, and you cannot possibly
conceive my position. 1 enclose the document to show the
portrait is in safety ; but, my lord, not being able to con-
quer the troubles with which I am visited, I have been ad-
vised to have resort to your lordship without loss of time.
I will not enter into details as to my present position ; suf-
fice it to say, that it is of the most excruciating nature.
" I have the honour to be, your lordship's faithful and
humble servant, " CHARLES COLLINS."
The document alluded to as enclosed was the pawn-
broker's ticket of the portrait pledged without the frame,
in which the accused had received it, for 21.
Mr. llroderip inquired whether there war any evidence
at present to show that the letter eras in prisoner's hand-
writing ?
Sergeant Smith said that in consequence of several appli-
cations made by ladies and gentlemen to the Commissioners
of Police he apprehended the prisoner at 12 o'clock on
Monday night at his lodgings. Witness told him he must
lock him up, but before be did that he must search his
place. Prisoner then handed him throe duplicates, one of
which related to a miniature. Witness went to No. 1, Cam-
bridge-street, from which prisoner's letters were addressed,
and there found 37 more pawnbrokers' tickets for portraits
and miniatures. The accused admitted they did not belong
to him but to other people. lie also found a great number
of sealed letters addressed to different members of parlia-
ment just elected.
The papers were handed to the magistrete. A printed
circular intimated that the author was publishing the me-
mein and portraits of eminent conservatives, dedicated by
the express permission of the committee to** members of
the Carlton Club, while the letters spolrm of addressed to
the newly returned whig representatives run thus:—" In
having the honour of placing the enclosed written list in
your presence, I beg leave to propose the insertion of your
portrait into the new series of this national work to which
it relates, and will presume to wait on you far the requisite
facilities to enable me to carry out my respectful promoul."
The enclosed circular, headed with the name of Lord J.
Russell, and followed by Mr. Roebuck, Dr. Bowring, Col.
Thompson, Mr. Hume, and a vast number of others in the
liberal interest, intimated that the writer with the mean.
nonce of the Reform Club was about to dedicate his talents
to that part,.
Accused denied that he hail obtained the portraits under
false pretences, as he intended to have had copies engraved,
but was unable for want of the promised support. l'eople
bad not taken the numbers as they had promised, and funds
did not come in fast enough. Had people kept their word
he would not have been in his present position.
The police having intimated that there would be a great
number of other cases against the accused, he was remanded.