The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-22 00:00:00

CLB&HEN WELL.

Mr. James Claring6old, baker, of 16, Hamilton-row,
Clerkenwell, wee charged by George Hodgson, an officer tf
the stamp duties office, for giving a receipt for monies with.
out affixing the legal stamp to the same.
The defendant had given a receipt for 31.4,. 7id., and
had neglected to affix a stamp.
blr. Tyrwhitt inflicted a line of 101., but with the consent
of the legal gentleman representing the Commissioners of
Inland Revenue, reduced the penalty to 61., stating that he
would not do so on a second conviction. _ _ _

It was stated by the gentlemen referred to that the soli-
eitor to the board has instituted nearly 400 prosecutions
every year since the passing of the new act, but they have
not come before the notice of the public, because the parties
have either paid the full payment, or have appealed under
special circumstances and paid the ball of the penalty.
SOUTHWARK.
Henry Berec ford, 19 years of age, wes charged with coin.
milting a violent assault on his mother, and stabbing his
brother-in-law.

The prisoner, who is of a very violent and morose disporif•
tion, lived with his mother while out of empioyment. She
treated him with kindnes, but on Wednesday the prisoner
struck her and behaved so violently, that she had to send for
pririoner's brother-in-law, Mr. Smith, licensed victualler,
Regent-street, to protect her. On Mr. Smith's arrival be
reproved the prisoner for his conduct, when the latter
seized a fork, and made a stab at his face. Mr. Smith put
up his hand to ward off the blow, and received a stab in
the palm of his hand. Prisoner then snatched up a knife,
but it was wrested from him, and he was given into custody.
Remanded.

Mr. A'Beckett has received the following sums for the
poor-box of the court, with the request of an acknowledg-
ment by our reporter:—" H. M." (Port Phillip), cheque
on Contra and Co. for 201 ; " B. S ," cheque on bepte nod
Co., 21. 25.; "C. 0," the first half of a 10/. note, We.
82,034; "J. D. C.," Bark of England note tor ; and
" Prst•othce order for 11.

EXTRAORDINARY GAME PROSECUTION.

BERKELEY, WEDNESDAY.

A cue, which excited quite a sensation in this dis-
trict of Gloucestershire, was beard at the Petty Sessions
here, ye,terday afternoon, before the Rev. J. Seton Karr
and Major Weight. Mr. James Cox, a respectable farmer,
was charged, on the information of John Powell, head
gamekeeper to Earl Fitzhardinge, under the act 9 Geo. IV.,
with night poaching on the 4 h December. The defendant
occupied a farm at Berkeley ; one of his fields, named the
Scotchill, adjoining a piece of land occupied by a man
named Penton, called Great Gaston. Mr. Parsten lets his
game to Earl Fitzhardinge. On the evening of the 4th
December a Mise Savage, who lives near, sent to tell the
defendant that a pheasant was .at roost in a tree in
the hedge between these two pieces of land, and Mr. Co:
(who takes out a game certificate) accordingly went to the
spot, and standing on his own land shot the bird, which fell
on the Gaston piece, whence it was handed to him by a
man named Nash, who had been sent to tell him of the
bird's reheat. This Nuh was the principal witness, and
he admi'ted that since the affiir be had been taken into
Earl Fitshardinge's service at 14s. per week wages, he only
earning 10s. per week before. lie and a gamekeeper of the
earl's swore that the branch on which the bird sat hung
over Parston's laud. Mr. Penton was examined, and de-
posed to the letting of the game to Earl Fitzhardinge, but
said the defendant asked his permission (in case he shot a
bird on his own land, and it fell on Pardon's) to go cn his
(Penton's) land to pick it up, which he had granted. It
was contended by defendant that the act was only intended
to extend to night poachers, and not to certified persons; I
bat the magistrates convicted, and sentenced the defendant
to a month's imprisonment, and to find sureties at the expi-1
ration of the term.