The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1855

Mit thus IS the tbtisbold ; I hays bees is goaded Is the
isle, tkat tb•l maw% prove publiaatios." Wits= asked
h4boi• =soy be had fold.. 34 said about 30, bit b• bid
dreulated • mat umber is high plums; sad wham than
Ridgway to seed the copies to the bookseUen to

large enstem, tad MIMI Me Amorist Hotel. All MP
bell party were sober, sad st bagatelle. There masses,
argusest about the bell , and deceased oilseed to bat,
but Mahon apid he set allow bets in his baler
Deceased said he did set a for Connolly, sad Oep
'lolly said he did not ears a for hiss ; they made it up
after, sod were geed friss& before they left When
Makatea house closed for the night, Mackenzie, desemok
and phesse went to the home of the latter, eel eat deem
is the parlour to ham mate drink. Desseasi mai
web quarrelled, some angry words puma, GM
Cillitltill eat Dunlsvy (whose modest was !sped
to as barbs; bees " provoking "), struck tbses4
after tad honked his towards the bar. Aa
to the evidence of Mackenzie, the deceased went a bow
Peps Into the bar, appeared to take something theses, and
thou mated after prhoser into the street. There was a
=door ia the seem which Mackenzie did not under-
and attest a miaow passed ere he could rat oat.
Whoa he got Ws Oa street he found prisoner and deceased
sselling, and nalholasstso them. He did not see say
blew struck, bee Who sr called out that he was killi4.
Maskessie eamebt of Conuolly's arm, and heard
something dry Mu Igo hand, on to the grating below.
TIN peihe Monism sp. Deceased was found lying on the
rod* wounded by stabs in the cheat sad
dim& Wawa, also had a wound is his thigh, but not
a serious ma. A large bunting knife et dagger was
eastwards pieked up by a polierman on the grate over the
bled cellar. When the pollen ones up they mooted
Osasolly and Meakensie, and told them whatever they sold
world be gives to 'videos*. Connolly, pointing toMsekensie,
Nod. w Tao man he ea. Donkey stabbed me, but I deset
Maw who stabbed him. There wee a man in aompany with
to who bad a light coloured jacket, but he is gate away."
Mr. Aspinall, on behalf of the prisoaer, said the was se
proof that he had brought a knife eat of the: bar, rse
that he bad amid one. The jury could not tell to whom Ow
knife belonged. There woe each doubt about the case fiat
his client must be acquitted.
His Lordship having summed up,
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of
Guilty. •
sentence—Twenty years' transportation.

eked Mr.

porFrerTeraileall, in summing up, said thh was very int•
tant and a very painful cue ; and be regretted ezeud-
Ugly to see a gentleman of 0 1 Bullock's statics la life,
an poisoning no he dembtlese did seamy valuable qualities,
UMW sWay, es be seemed to be, by • action at whisk
nailing wadi ewe him. His eloquent and ethenist etansel
had said dut when the defendant took a thing in his head
it was damn to get It out .gala, and the observed=
uses= to be most just. The *barge he had made against
the plaintiff was that he had bethped hie trust, and sold
his client. It was • meet serious charge against the
plaintiff, for U proved be must be the most infamous
of mankind. The learned judge having given en oath=
'et the east, said it ens such a one as, in the mouse
eI hls laag eziritrazado:everira oo
Bullock zes to his
carried
away by a strong temper sad an impetuous desire to effect
kis abject. He bad caused this libel to be circulated in •
manner he had never knows, for, net contest with =Whit-
ing it in a newspaper, he had obtained slips and seat them
to all the perm= of note in the minty. Kr.
Mackey was eompelled, in ceder to vindicate his
character, to bring this settee, and as justification
was pleaded it was in this form trying an Wheaton for
perjury. It wee for the defendant to prove that the plain-
tiff had committed wilful sad corrupt perjury. If even he
bad the depravity of mind—and he had neva knows such
a depravity as en attorney trying to bring about the eoa
riches of • =a whose interests he was employed to defend
—why should they suppose he would commit so outran-
gest a crime? Did they see any reason to believe that the
verdict = the former trial wu wrong ? and if they believed
there was no ground for the aecusadon where was the
motive hr perjury? Did they When there was any
material inuerrecy in the evidence given by the plaintiff on
the former trial? and it they thought there was any in-
sunray, did it show that the plaintiff had been guilty of
deliberate sad corrupt perjury ?
The jury retaraed • verdict for the plaintiff—Domes
6001.

4S.FIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Thausroics, Dic. lb.

/MOM MS. /17111101
70101 RT NT • 11011111102.
Howe Dnuy, a young sus of respectable emonezioas,
wee charged WM (orgies a oblique for 371. 81., upon Messrs.
Hoskyas beak. at Hereford, on the 111th Isis lest.
Mr. Maples sad Mr. Cleave prosecuted; sad Kr.
Skinner delooded the prisoner. .
Mr. H metier at the City and County Bunk at
Hereford, &peal that on the above mentioned day the pri-
soner proemial • *begs* signed "S. Underwood" for
371.8.., sad that he oohed the cheque for bile. Witness at
the same time sashed a second cheque for him, drawn by his
employer, Mr. lhogheas.
Mr. Stephen peeved that the primate embed a cheque
for hits on theft, in googlies, and the deposition of Mr.
Underwood Orbs was ill) was put fa; and whisk proved
that die heeled algae bed not been signed by hi.. Proof
was she pm that die middle leaf of a blank alleges book
had besarebileaelei ken die omen of Mr. Underwood, and
that the suabiee um the lost cheques coneepooded with
those apes *papule peedased. The primmer, It seems,
had oesedsadly bees is the Wise white the cheque book
wee kept.
Tke defense was that this was a ease at abeam ideality
ea the paned the ashler, sad that whither she dope was
fowled of ask lt bad sot been sawed by the plower.
The jury Med bin Guilty, sad hi use sesteaesd to fear
yaws' pool siedbiga.
Viinlllo COI7NTII7IIT COIL
Thomas Chasm Nary Cahill, Sarah Matilda Heed, and
Jesse Marian Maim were convicted of uttering counterfeit
min, at BAN), when' a dissent had been wade epos the
shopkeepers, sad a good deal of counterfeit money got rid
of. /3estenee—Cbaffey U months', Head one year's, and
Nelda, sad Cahill 9 months' imprmment each.
1111411011.1) XIIILDTIL
The road jury has jest throws estate bills for murder
against the eight.savigaters, sad foetid tree bills for aiaa

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Noamm, Dic. U.

11•013 I. /MIMI

John Ward was charged with setting fire to a stank of
wbsst, oats, sad barley, end a stack of bey, the property of
William Ward, his brother, on the 4th of December.
The partite live at Nicton, and it appeared from the evi-
dence that ea unfrioadly feeling has @aimed for some time
Wyse' the prisoner and his brother. When the Sr* won
first dimivered he was sitting In a shoemaker% shop fa the
village, and whim be heard the alarm given he called ont
with ea oath, although he mild not ere the fire, that it must
be at his brother's stacks. Subsequently footmarks very
daftly sorrespondiag with the boots worn by the prisoner,
WON hued is a field between dramas sad the shoemeler's
shop, bat none could be identified in the wheat stubble fa
widish the stacks *sally stood. The prisoner stated that
he had hem into the field in which the footmarks were
felted foe the pup* of hustles a rabbit; and as it was
proved that he had assisted is putting out the fire, and that
be had hese 'Mize fa the shoemaker's shop 20 minutes
before the alarm wee gibs,
Hr. Justice Crompton expressed his opinion that ths ease
against hiss was far from tiondadve, and
The jury Acmitted him.
Joseph Underwool, as agricultural labourer, was nursed
with the maaelaughter of Robert Ones, • fellow wirier's.
The ease afforded another hated* of the frightful re-
sults of the present system of " harvest hems." Os Satur-
day the 22ad of September, the deemed and s. ether
workmen web at** Him 's Arms psi* hem et r,
seer Great Yarmouth. The deemed was sober. and the
parties wen all quiet till twelve oblisek, whim the lease
was shut up. The pdsseer had net been la the ham, sad
after the doesmed end kb imismeiens had left it they td
outside Dior alba Mee. The primmer and his two beo-
them ones up to be met where they were Minding, and
ere of them asked lb a bailer. A light wu gibe, but
beam* niimplained same there missed a little " jeaslies"
—to us a, very expressive and eimpreheneive Norfolk word.
Aimed immediately skimmed' the deeessed was blocked
down by the primer, who brach him • violist blow co the
bask of the right ear. Howes taken to a house close by in an
insensible state, and died the following morning. The pri.
Goner was in a state of quarrelsome intoxication whoa he
streak the dimmed, bdeed daring the day he had been
imbibing the almost incredible quantity of twenty plate of
bon.
Mr. ;Mies Osemptoe, in pawing senteme, said it was
lamentable to see the working classes indulging in sash
intempermes. la the present instates the person messed
did Mb ewes to hem hem actuated by say particular wh-
itens lamas. end se le had already been imprisoned for
three seentlee rhos istmee ooaly. f the mart was that he be for-
am emileisd fir slz walks
Isinner Lab, a mall Inner, was Merged with WMs
and mimading Phoshe Hum, a sorbet is his father's be*,
with Lion to mode her.
Oa the men*. ef Sunday, the 12th of August, the pri-
seam, who bdi ilia Set drinking all the preceding sight,
reamed Is hie father's helm at Wymondhans, and meat
fate the Whim. The girl Bann was standing is the
hashes al the time, sad otter making some mane attains
to her, the Omer meat 119 • drawer, took sot a ram', sad
mule a imeibi mead sit her neck eight inches long, sad
semis en leek At list it was thought that her life
wish le itemli but she recovered after an Maas of
two menthe.
Mr. Ream, who appeared for the primer sr, submitted that
ha was tipsy at the its he same home, sad that as he was
iscapable of forming any fired resolution, he was only guilty
of the offence of mlawfully wounding.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of this latter mime,
sad he wee sentemed to two years' issprinansest.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—You=, Dir.c. 15.

BPOIIII XL MOON imam.
ALARA= 3101D11 £T 0147T0N.

James Whereas, 29, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Jeremiah Whams, at Claytoa West, on the let instant.
Mr. Hardy and Mr. Mauls were for the prosecution ; Mr.
Pries and Mr. Shepherd for the defence.
The particulars of this case have recently appeared
in the Express. Prisoner and deceased were brothers.
Them was a quarrel of long standing betimes them, and
they never met without angry words aril:lil ISMS a eh aide.
Some three weeks previotely, a crewel ha pima
between them, prisoner was heard by is pass= es-
&Maim, "By stick Ma." On the night of the
fatal enemata; deceased and primer had been &klieg
et as he., 110 Me together. The deemed, when the home
dill* MS 11112.4 eat with hie comprione, and as they
IPSO IMO they NM to where the prwieer wee mandiag,
who ementiagly called out to demeed, "Go home, old
eleeidy." Primmer went bask. sad s mate sassed. De-
emed wee slabbed is tea plums, and died is a Mame or
twe afteewasSs. . . .

TTse leap Mad the prisoner guilty of ussitalaugliter
masam egpperienami eirsausteacet, aad he was seateaced to
be la Ise
Tbillielbieedfil as them wises oentaised tie anus of 116
1:71s ke trial. The etannissioe was opened bee &tar-
holciale, tesasenesd at awe on Kondey. 111. Baron
Martin did est 'Mee is court until Tuesday seeming
(havieg beau detained at Durban with the Borden poison-
ing ease), sad yes the whole of tbe basis's.wasbore coa-
eladed by sees is-day. ate learned jedpe disposed of
about 72 pressers a day, athe average. I

Die. 15.

110011 i 11. Milan

Petrick Comaelly wee linefeed. os the eoroweee
ties, hr tho hter of Altaibrom Dualevy, es ow 6th
of Doesetber, by Hs kits to the heart with ea Aimless
lutif% near the A 111•601111 Het.t, Bisekttooe.street.
Mr. DEM wee for the prowestirw t and Mr. Aspisall,
with wheat Wee Mr. Sham, was for Om degrees.
It of poses& that ow the night of the 6th et Deesisher
het Ko theeseeml wet at the hewn of Mr. Dishes,* publican,
to Livarpeol, with George Kuhns* a lamer hew &iv,
who bed also to Limited to iweigrees. Deemed 'ad
Maihrgelle were pie at begiveUe, win Mahon is.. Is
wile Ss for, who kept a Fab& Mete la Limped. el