The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-01 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The sittings of the court for the April Adjourned Quarter
Sessions were resumed yesterday owning at the Guildhall,
Westminster, before Mr. Serjeant Adams (Assistant Judge),
Mr. Witham, and a full b. itch of magistrates. There were
88 prisoners for trial; 86 charged with felony, and 3 with
misdemeanour.
Thomas Gains., 76, pleaded guilty to an indictment in
which he was charged with having stolen the sum of 241.,
the monies of George Wood. There was a further charge
against him of stealing a chisel, the property of James
Cutting.
This prisoner was one of the old Bow-street runners, and
hes been frequently convicted of felony end other offences
in this court and at the Police-offices. He was only recently
discharged from the House of Correction after undergoing •
soutanes of six months for an assault on a woman. Formerly
his wages inmate of the Lunatic Asylum at Hsnwell, where
the kiadness of the Assistant Judge, in his then official capa-
city in cosnezion with that establishment made sue
impression
an on him, that he fails not, when he makes his
appearance at the bar before his lordship, to mark his peti-
t •by inquiring in the kindest as to the state of
his health, and es the present occasion he enlivened the
court by expressing a familiar, but f t, hope that " his
friend Serjeant Adams was well end hearty." The pri-
soner is in the habit (when not in prison) of wandering
about the town, his penes profusely bedecked with the pa
raphernalis of the gaoler's office, chains end keys, from
which it would seem that his ideas, in hie dotage and imbe-
cility, still cling %orate associations of his former avocation.
H• himself acknowledges that he is not right in his mind,
but makes a kind of boast that it Is le consequence of
having had • silver - piste put in his heed through haring
sustained • cut in the part fs• played in the affair of the
Cato street Coespirsey.
The Assistant-Judge trusted the prisenev's familiarity
with great good humour, and sentenced him to two years'
imprisonment, at the same time directing that the requi-
site certificates should be immediately prepared for his re-
moval to Hanwell Myles.
The circumstances of the case were these. The prose.

enter had a farm at Anton, sad the prisoner had been known
there for years. Sometimes he was allowed to sleep in one
of the barna, and though his eccentricities were well known
his honesty was suspected. On the 21st of April ce
weal there, and said he had jest been discharged from Hen-
and during the temporary absence of the clerk he
broke open a desk and decamped with a bag which contained
over 241. is money. The rubbery was chosevered almost
directly afterwards, and a man went in pursuit on horse
back, and gave him is charge. The bag of mosey was
foetid upon him, and he said to the =astable who took his,
" They eta malt mead ate back to the asylum. If I'd bars
got a little farther oa I should have got the omnibus
Wasn't I fool I didn't pleat it, sa I could hare fetched it
afterwards, and have bed a aka spree with it." Be broke
open the desk with the chisel whisk was the &ablest of the
moat 'barge.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam
palm Iberia arrived 'at iouttiarptis yesterday, with the
pealsealar