The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Bofors Mr. Payee.)
THI ALLIOID VICTIMS OF FOLKS

William White, who was convicted on Thursday last of
shoplifting, and wee sentlanosd to ten years' penal servitude,
was placed is the dock.
Mr. Payne mid—You were meek:tad before me, no
Thursday last, of the Mimes of stealing from • tradesmaa's
shop. in coo junction with two other persons, a roll of cloth,
of the value of 31. I have had you brought up to-day for
the purpose at informing you that I have, after considera-
tion and consultation with others, determined to postpone
year sentence titan the next session, to enable inquiry to
be made into the truth of year assertion, that you were
the victim of police persecution. But I think it my duty,
in consequeam of remark' which have been publicly made
In the Timm upon the case, for the sake of the ad-
, Minietratioe of justice, to say • few words about it.
It has been said that the case wee • trifling
ooe. I moot mom with that opinion. When • stogie
person steals an Wide of small value, the case may be mid
to be intim ; but when three prams—one of them an old
offender—go out together, and remove, for the purpose of
stealing from a tractiaman'e shop. aa article worth several
pounds, although through the vigilance of the police they
do not carry MI the article, it does not appear to ate to be
at all • trans ease. It has a/so been said that the jury
might have acquitted you. I do not see how, upon
the evidence, aad using their emcees mesa, they eoald
have acted otherwise than they did. If they had
found you "Net Guilty," upon the defence mg-
pond, they would, in substance, have declared the
policeman to have committed a most wicked offence,
via., that of having failed in one charge, end. in COON.
queue, entirely hemmed* or, as it is called, " trumped
up" mother,
_and this only on assertion without any evi.
deem. I am not responsible for the verdict ; but I feel
bound to my that, both is law and in fact, I pounder it was
a just one. For the sesame" I Moos me eespo Ma. It
war proved that on • banner ermaios you Lad been, for a
robbery of silver plate, sentenced to five years' penal servi-
tude, which would have expired on the Bth of the present
month. You were discharged ea • taoket-of -leave at the red
of 4 years, and did not predawn any evidence es to how you
had spent the peat year. The pnacaple upon which I
have acted in passing sentencethis, as long as I
can see any mimes of combining the reformation of
the off ember and the protection of tie public, I elegy en.
&avow to do so ; bat when, by nearer iamierannaimats
and a tong term of peed serenade_ , it appears that the
offender will sot reform, then I think it right to consider
mainly the protection of the public. Banyan aseerted that
you were the victim of polio, tyranny. I have always had
a strong opinion, which I have often
1:r who
ai'deromiarblie
apron the interference of policeman
have got into employment, and have 'moral times caused
investigations to be made into inch matters. I did not do
eo as the moment in your ease became I thought that as
you had inseructed your maned to seems the policeman of
a most wicked charge, and which charge the jury had by
their verdict declared to be unfounded, I could sot rely on
your declarative. But on the next day, and before the
remarks appeared to which I have referred, your counsel
was told that the eonrt would de what it
could to forward an Unitary ea the mthjeet. I
may further add that anther the jury nor myself were
swan before the verdict of the previous conentime. You
will be brought up aged next melon, and such sentence
will thea be famed upon you is any alteration el the eke
ounistenoes may repine or as, after careful omeideratiee,
may he thought jest and proper.
Mr. Harwood (a magistrate on the beach.) Hear, her!
(limas °morel laughed.) I am astonished that several mem-
bers of the bar should look at me and leash. Limit know for
why, Meanie I °moaned is the remarks el the judge, and
I should have thought to have been borne oat by them in-
stead el being laughed at.
In • cam of a primmer named Henry Dixon, tried on
Thursday last, he was brought up yesterday to naive
judgment, as a poliennea stated that he haw the miscast
as • computioa of those's, and had seen the warmer
frequeatly within the last mese months in the company of
two noted thieves. The prisoner denied that statement,
and mid that he was at that time in Fel thaw Reformatory.
Yesterday it appeared that valet the primmer thee stated
wee wreak for be was oily discharged from Mere et Jura
last.

Mr. Payne mid that the constable mad salami as =plata
hia polities statemeota, and he timid lino le knew wby be
was not parent new. Tbe priedoer bad been sesesaged
for biro to mak* atquirite, bat ho bed set ablawdad, and be
should take mines or it.

Ur. Brblaq whothioadad the primmer, said ► stric► in-
quiry ought to take pima, far if gestlemen of the bar said
saythiag spasm the police be for me keew what a bunt of
y they lied is uodergo, sad be did my that the polite
ought to he ammtiams t► what they swam to, as they wan
mostly the primipal vitamins, 'gaunt primates.
The ►tatter was thee further deferred until mit scrim

Kr. Pep' rid if that bed bets the ietestioe of the
primmer ate weld bare Lis dot's on the top of the bed
sad oat aoseeeled hermit node, it. He honeyed the pri.
ewer west tree the bones for the purpose at committing a
[any. an bad called so witauses, sad had given a very
saestidesiery iesatutt of bona% He eroteetoad her to be
imprioned for aew mouth sad kept to head Liner.

LONDON WEEKLY DOCK
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Man Maas
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Cabs. bozos
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1,405
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101,041

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41,941

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TALLOW.—The tallow market Ms been lirm to-day,
y for distant periods of delivery. and prior are
particularly
per eat. higher than kart Monday. From
St. Petersburg telegraphic *Arose import the ssarket
firm at 424 at., Augur ex. 331,1. Our closing priors
are :- Spot, 40s. 9d. to 41s. ; aid, 40s. ; June, 41s. ; July
to September, 41.. 31. Co 41a. 6d. ; October to Deosisiber,
435. 9d. to 44a. ; town tallow, 395. net cash ; North Ame-
ricas, 40s. 6rae,, to 38s. inferior ; South Amoroso, 42a. lot
pip= A • beef, 3116. to 395. &l. Palm oil firm
365. Ale L oa. Cocoa ant oil steady. Oochin, 41s. 6d.;
to 425. ; Ceylon, 39a. ; Sydney, 39a. to 395. 6d. fine ;
dd. Nod• 37a. inferior. No palm nut oil here.—
(From the cueultir of Moms. Smith and Charles, dated
Monday wooing.)

oarrox.—Linatoot, MAY 30.—Wm hare had a fair
Wainer to-day, Without change in prise. Was to-day
8,000 balms, including 3,000 appuilatioo and export. 700
Antariaus, 270. to 290. ; 750 Pusan, tic.. 28pl. to 29d. ;
150 Maranham, 28ed. to 30d. ; 900 ipptias, 28d. to 32d. ;
150 Smyrna, 23idL to 24d. ; 5,350 Borst, 134. to 25d. ;
Bengal, &and*. &c., 131 d. to 17d. ; China, 19d. to 2001. ;
Japan, 2004. to 21d.

WOOL AND WORSTED. —BRADFORD, Mar 30.
Although there has this morning bees rather more inquiry
than for some time pest, it has sot led to an equal amount
of bushier. Prices of inane wool mint be again quoted as
declining, and in many maws it is difficult to effect sales.
Holders on the contrary show named disporition to
realise, and altogether the tendency of prime is in favour of
the buyer. Wonted yarns manifest little chance. The
production going on is still on a large male, wish little
variation is pries, notwithelending the onosesiori made in
wool. Pieces are also unchanged. Trade in the ware.
bonne is pretty steady, but manufacturers do not receive
many fresh ceders, nor is the demand for China as brisk
ail it was.

TEL—Although business in Minelng.lene has been in.
terrupted during the past week by Spann Rune, and two
days appropriated to 1101118•01110% the tee market has main-
tamed its strengthened character, by the further relief
afforded tattle money mark enarltter reduction of 1 per
cent. in the Bank rate. is gaining ground
that our supply of good tea will be inadequate to
meet the increasing coseumption, and admitting the import
has been large, yet the qualities most required are dispro-
portionate to the want. of the toads. Uader all the circum-
steams that surround the market, there can no logger be a
doubt that tea has reached its lowest point for at least some
months; and looking to the improved position of the money
market, and the quantity of tea " afloat* being now re-
duced to about 5,000,000 lbs, with our stock from this time
feet dimiaishing, there appears to be irufticiimt grounds to
justify the expectation of improved prior. Amount of
duty paid oti tea in London for the week ending May 21,
987,151 lb.. ; export of tea from London for the week
ending May 18, 225,346 lba ; total, 1,212,497 ; ditto
same tints lest year, 1,291,614 lbs. The arrivals have been
the Fair Loader (666,693 lbs. Aurora Australis 1635,0001ba ).
Rio (195,000 lbs.), and (76,090 lbs.) (Prom
Mears. W. 8. 81autilurogila sod oo.'s Weekly Tea Report,
dated May 30.)

CATTLE—Unmoor., Mar al —2lte supply of stock
VII about the sum as oit last Monday. The demand fair for
cattle at the full prime of last weak. Sheep mid lambi in
very bask demand, at hisbor prime.

00ALEL—LoaDosi, NAT 30.—Has Ilsrtiry, 15a. 9d.
Musheld Moot, 14a. ; Taalleld Meat Bates, 14a.; Walker
Primrose, 13a. 3d.; Wait Wylam, 15a. &L 611.;
Walls Bad Godards, 14.. 9d.; Walls Bad 15e. ;
Eden Baia, 15a. 64.; Walls Bad ErsdaYllB
15a. 9d, ; Wale Bad Ferawallipste, 14s. 6d.; Wall:UM
Haswell, 16.. 6d. ; Wall. Nod Haltom 16s. 6d.; Walla Bad
South Elation, Ha 61. ; Walls Bad Tia Mall, 15e. ; Wails
Lad Oandoe, las. 3d. ; Will. End Haigh Ball, 16s. ;
Walls Ead Kenos, 15.. 9d. ; Wall. End Fast Hartlepool,
16a. 6d. ; Walls Had Booth Sella% lam—Skip at Market,
83; said, 56.