The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

PROSICUTIOIIB.

His Honour said that in this case, in which a prosecution
bad been directed, he found that the order con-
tained the words—" And I do further direct that
the costa shall be paid out of the estate." He very
much doubted whether he had the power of making such
an order. The old act contained words to that effect,
but they had been omitted, no doubt unintentionally,
from the act of 1881. The question was whether the
order could be made for payment of the code oat of the
chief registrar's fund, of course deducting the county
allowance. The Lord Chancellor had made an order that
those orders for criminal prosecutions should not be made
without drat consults; him.
Mr. Sargood —That is not law, although ooroing from a
Lord Chancellor. The act expremly provides that the
order for prosecution shall come from this court ; and, to
relieve the general fund, the court has power to order the
costa to be paid out of the estate. Mr. Commissioner Hal-
royd boa made such an order.
The Commissioner—Then! shall sanction the prosecution,
ordering the mots to be paid out of the estate, of course de-
ducting the county allowance. The county is so grossly
shabby in its allowances that perhaps if this order is put on
the promedi L it will not allow the costs.
Mr. Se goodlt cannot refuse to pay the ordinary coats
of • prosecution.

The
fore ?

,r—Which court will the matter go be-

Sargood—The Central Criminal Court.
The Commissioner—That is the shabbiest of all. (Laugh-
ter.) lam told that the county of Surrey is more liberal.
The order waa eventually made in the form in which it
stood.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Ariatant-Judge.)
ROBBERIES AT BOO'S COLLIRIE SCHOOLS.

James 01(tertian Tennant, described as a mineralogist,
wax indicted for stealing a cloth coat, value 20.., the pro.
Party of Alfred Herbert Squire. There were two other
indictments for stealing coats, the property of Edward
Herbert Fuller Jenoer and James Utten Todd.
Alfred Herbert Squire said he resided with his parents at
No. 1, York-gate, Regent's-park, and was a pupil at King's
College School. About eight mooting ago he missed his
overcoat, which be placed at the bottom of the stain when
be went up to chapel. (In the 13th of May while paseng
the shop of Mr. Sayer, No. 29, Brydges•treet, Covent-
garden, he saw the coat he had lost imposed for sale.
John Bauer, of No. 138, Waterloo-road, modeller, said be
purchased some pawn tickets relating to the pledging of a
coat, with several others, of the prisoner's wife, the prisoner
at the tame waiting outside. He paid him the money for
them by instalments. These tickets he delivered over to
the police-constable.
Elizabeth Leahy said the prisoner was her sister's hus-
band. In November hat she saw the prisoner bring coats
from King's College and club-rooms, both large and small
ones, sod he also brought some on various days in Decem-
ber and January. He delivered these coats to his wife, and
she heard him tell her to brush them, and then to pawn
them. _ _

John Thompson, police-constable 52 F, said be received
five pawnbroker's tickets from the witness Bauer on the
morning of the 11th of May, and amongst them was one foe
the pledging of a coat at Mr. Sayer's, in Bridges-street,
for tis.

William Remit, assistant to Mr. Richard Sayer, of No.
29, Brydgeestreet, Covent.garden, said the ticket now
Nroduced was for a coat pledged at the shop on the 12th of
ovember last for Ge. The coat was identified by the wit.
nese Squire.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The case of Edward Herbert Fuller J saner sou then
taken, and the prosecutor said that he was • pupil at
King's College School, and left him coat in the usual place,
in October last, when he went up to chapel, and on his re-
turn it had disappeared.
A verdict of Guilty in this case sou returned.
The third indictment was precisely of the same &scrip-
tMo, the prosecutor Todd being also • pupil in the same
school, and in both instances the coats were found to have
been pawned.
It transpired in the court that the prisoner, in coojunc.
tion with soother man, in custody, had committed a miss
of robberies in various departments of King's College to a
great extent.
The Assistant Judge said this was a matter which must
be fully inquired into, for it appeared robberies had been
carried on to • very large extent, is conjunction with other
persons. lie should, theisfore, defer passing sentence until
the next session.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

WORSHIP STREET.
DESTIOUTZ ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE._

Javier CAteae, a thick-set labouring man, was charged
before Mr. Cooke with violently aasaulting and wounding
Thomas Gogerty, 179 G.
Complainant, who bore marks of ill-mage on his head
and face, and appeared to have suffered considerably,
said—On the morning of the 26th of May last I was
on duty in Worship-street, near this court, when the de-
fendant was quarrelling with • woman. The neighbour-
hood was disturbed, and I was compelled to Interfere. He,
however, refused to go away, or desist, and on endeavour.
ing to take him into custody he struck rue • heavy blow
with his fist on the cheat, and I fell, hurting my back
severely against the lamp on my belt. He ran
off, and I contrived to follow and caught him
in Paul-street, where he again struck me, but it was on
my head, causing me to reel against some shutters. He
then entered a house. I followed him up some stairs ;on
gaining the landing, I perceived that be had a large piece of
iron in his hand. I tried to close with bin,, but he instantly
struck me • terrible blow with the weapon, and I fell help-
less. I have since suffered greatly from the injuries to my
head and back. _ _ _

Baker, 103 G—At the time in question I heard a riot, and
followed my brother constable up the stairs of the home.
I saw defendant strike him on the head with this piece of
iron, and as be stood over the fallen man he swung it about,
at the same time swearing to split open the skull of anyone
who apprehended him. He afterwards retreated into a room,
and locked the door. I forced it. lie made scut at me
with the iron. I stepped back and then knocked him down
with my staff, believing that if I did not he would kill me.
Subsequently be was gut to the station-house, but not with-
out considerable difficulty. Hs waa the worse for liquor.
Mr. James Bothers Mather, the divisional surgeon, said
that the complainant was still under hie care, and had been
off duty since the assault. He had a wound of a very
dangerous character on the right cheek, one end of it
being about a quarter of an inch from the eye ; the piece of
iron produced would doubtless indict such injury, and the
man had lost an immense quantity of blood, principally from
the division of an artery. There were numerous severe
bruised about hie head and back, sod he appeared to have
been kicked about the legs, or probably trampled on while
he lay senseless.
The prisoner °untamed contrition for the injuries he had
inflicted, and said it was all in coosequsnos of .the "
Mr. Cooke observed that such ferocious assaults as had
here been proved were totally beyond his power to deal
adequately with, and he fully committed the fellow for trial.

CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 2.—Member returned to
serve M the present parliament.—George Joachim °oscine,
Esq., citizen and spectacle-maker, for the City of London,
in the room of Western Wood, Esq., deceased.—Oszette.
PRECEDENCE OF EDINBCROIi AND DUBLIN. —We
understand that the committee of the Royal Horticultural
Society charged with the arraugements for the ceremonial
of uncovering the memorial of the Exhibition of Ittll, on
the 10th of June, have bad under their consideration the
poeition to be occupied in the procession by the representa-
tives of the cities of Edinburgh and Dublin, and have de-
cided th►t the Scottish capital is entitled to precedence
ever the Irish.
THE DOINuS AT CLAYDON CNCRCH.—On Mon-
day evening a mock procession was held in the village by a
number of Whitsuntide holiday maker, io Clay on and
adjacent parishes. The diesses, banners, candles, censer,
/sc., were made to imitate and at the same time
to exaggerate those need en the prooessions at the
church. To carry out the imitation more fully au
ornamental beg was carried round to collect oblation;
and a oonsiderable sum was said to be realised, which was
spent in the subsequent iodulgencies of Whit-Monday
night. It will be remembered that, in the report in our
Wt publication, our corespondent suited that., after the
morning service was concluded, Brother Ignatius told
the few strangers who were lingering in the church that
there would be public service there again en the evening
at seven, and that when the church was cleared and
the door Messed, the organ struck up and singing was
cootisued for a long time, but soy who were present,
besides the Benedictines, must have entered through the
vestry. We now learn from soother correspondent that a
mortice wee performed, by the monks and six choristers,
from the Roman Benedict me Breviary, a copy of which, in
Latin, lies publicly on the lectern, instead of the Bible.—
Bury and Norwich Poet.