The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sorjorat.)
BPVIDY JDBYICC

!Valiant Montague, 19, with stealing a puree
sod money.
The prisoner was only committed from the Mission-
souse yesterday. He now pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
months' hard labour.
Emile Collin, 28, a Frenchman, pleaded guilty to these
cdictroents charging him with stealing property from hotels,
be property generally being of • very valuable description.
H. Palmer prosecuted, and Mr. Poland appeared for
be prisoner.
It appeared from the statements made by the counsel for
:be prosecution and the officer, that the prisoner had for
.tine time been carrying on the system of robbery, and the
wade in which he contrived to obtain pomeenoe of the
property was of rather an ingenious character. The pri-
weer took lodgings at au hotel for • night,
with him a light leather caw, which he carried empt;4,kiZ
upon seeing an opportunity he contrived to place some one I
else's portmanteau into his own and carry it away un-
perceived. Ie some cases the prisoner left behind
dim • bag of his own containing a quantity
of rubbish, such as straw or old bricks. Upon
roe occasion the prisoner took lodgings at an hotel,
and having taken a portmanteau of consider-
able value belonging to some other person, he left one be-
hind him, in which was found • number of articles which
were identified u part of the contest. of • bag which was
.toles from an hotel at Brighton. The prisoner wee also
identified as hawing stolen a beg of considerable value from
the Castle at Richmond. He also paid • visit a short time
tack at the Queen's Hotel, Newgateetreet, and Moir •
portmanteau containing clothing and fifteen sovereigns. He
also took • portniankau from an hotel in Covent-pram,
in • similar manner. Upon being taken into custody the
prisoner rave his address is Paris, but the °Mora discovered
that he lived in Bsrinoodasy. and at his lodgings found
various articles which were identified as portions of pro-
perty stolen from different hotels.
The Common Sajeant, in posing sentence on the pi-
ncer, na'd the system of larceny which the prisoner had
adopted was much worse, and might be attended with more
.erions consequeeces, than: any ordinary larceny. In the
ant place, a traveller robbed in that way and harmonise
so be some distance from home might be put to very semen
,nonvenience for want of money. It brought very grave
riapiciou upon the servants, and brought the custom of the
'octets in peril. He should not pass the extreme sentence
which the kw permitted, as the prisoner was comparatively
a young men, and might retrieve his character. He sen-
tenced him to six years' penal servitude.
Elingeth Griffin was charged with wilful and corrupt
Ribton prosecuted ; and Mr. Orry was counsel for
the defendant.
The circumstances of the case were of • somewhat unusual
character. The defendant was the wife of • labouring man,
who resided at Ashford, in Middlesex, and the prosecutor
was also • labouring man, residing in the manse place.
It appeared that previous to the date upon which
the occurrence took place there had bass some
alight dispute between the two partite. Thedefendantehsrgd
the prosecutor with having, on • certain data,
ill-treated a kitten, and said that she had sees him throw •
atone at it which broke its jaw and 'mocked its eye out,
and also inflict further injuries. The magistrate, onstage-
lag the nee made out against him, lined him 41. Subse-
quently be appealed against the =egrets 's decision, and
gave such evideooe es to prove clearly *at on the date in
question he was otherwise engaged, and not in the locality
mentioned by the defendant as the epee 'dime the alleged
occurrence took place ; and it ass alleged that she had
made the statement with • malicious intent, sad mow
quently the present proceedings bad been taken.
The jury found the defendant Guilty; and ohs was sen-
tenced to six mouths' imprisonment sad hut labour.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(MIS DAY.)

MORDZEOUN ASSAULT ON • WM.
George Stone, a dirty-looking fellow, who 'appeared to be
suffering front the effects of continued drunkeanms, was
l before Yr. Barker with assaulting his wife under
tel:Vowing circumstances :
The wife, a mierable-looking woman, who appeared in
the witues-box with a frightful black eye, and who seemed
in the greatest poverty stated that yesterday her husband
was drinking at a public-boues, and as both she and her
children were in a starving state she went and asked him
to give her some money to get something for the
children to ask, and he struck her. She had six ehil.
&ea to support, and although the primmer had plenty of
work at home he spent his money in drisk and never would
do any work while he had a fueling of mousy left.
The primmer, is reply to the charge, said that his wife
left hint all day, and two of the childrea who went out to
work had no clean otothes to put on. That annoyed him,
made him go oat and get drunk, and thee moult his wife.
Mr. Barker inquired it the prisoner had ever helms
semulted his wife.

The wife replied that she was always covered with
braises. She had been smutted some scores of times in a
similar way to the present.
Mr. Barker mid it was s elm aces that hie poor children
had to stiffer whilst he was Mhos' his time is a public house.
He had also Ma is the habit of Hinging his wife, sod he
(Mr. Barker) would therefore attempt to cure Lim of his
ill-conduct towards those whom he WY bound to protect and
cherish. The effect of the imprisonment would be to keep
him sober, iodise did hope that when he awns out be would
be a reformed ma. He thee sentenced the prisoner to be
imprisoned sad kept to hard labour for four calendar
month@ in the /km of Correction.

The primmer, op being removed, said he would never live
with has wits say mum.

DEATH OF A FEMALE THROUGH SHOE/NO.—A
family Darned Thorne, resided at No. 8, Francis•street,
Oldatrest-road, Shoreditch. During last night Mrs Eliza
Thorne, aged 35, managed to smoke two half.ounons of
tobacco, and when she retired to bed commenced to smoke a
third package of the same size. Whilst No doing it is presumed
that some of the lighted tobacco fell upon the bed sad set
it on fire, and the foolish woman became encircled in flame.
Her cries obtained moistener, and the fire was extinguished,
but not before the poor woman was burnt to death and eon-
aiderable damage done to the furniture and also to tie
building.
LAMENTABLE DEATH Paoli Fiaz.—An inquiry
was held by Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, at the
London Hospital, last evening, respecting the death of a
girl named Elizabeth Abell, aged 14 years, who was burnt
to death under the following melancholy circum-
stance, The deceased girl was the daughter of
Frans Abell, • German musician, who performs
nightly at the White Hart music-hall. Whitechapel.
Last Thursday email); her mother left her at home at
No. 8, 11 Princes-square while she went
to see her father at the music-hall. Deceased lay down
before the fire and fell asleep. A spark fell from the grate
and ignited her clothes, and she was in a mane of flames
before she was aroused by the heat. She rushed into the
garden, sled before the 'wishbones, alarmed by her shrieks,
could come to her aid she was burnt over the limbs, body,
and face. She was takes to the hospital, where death soon
put an end to her sufferings. The jury returned a verdict
of " Accidental death by fire."
FALL PROM THE CLIFF AT ST. LEONARD'S.—

About midnight oil Friday Let, theoccupente of the row Of
Douses at the west end of Karina, of which the Fountain.
Inn forms part, were corridors* alarmed by the falling
of a barge portion of the cliff there. The exact spot at which
the fall took place wsaat the rend the house occupied by
Mr. J. Baker, who carries, on the busbies' of dairyman and
baker. The cliff, which i oompoeed of earth wind, and huge
blocks of stooe, fell with& tremendous creel', breaking through
the roof of a bakehouse sad • shed, and completely burying
those buildings as well se a faggot stack whiz!' adjoins the
maw The back entrance to the premiers bee been stopped,
and a few feet from the door there is a large block of stone
weighing not leer than three or foer toes. Another creak
still remains at the top of the cliff extending to • dilemma)
of 12ft. or 11ft. from the edge, and the appearance which it
present' is such as to cause further alarm to the occupants
of the houses. A heavy fall of earth took place at the back
of the Rental. Inn about two or three yew, ago, end
on that aocaeioa a man who wee sleeping in the stable was
buried alive. Fortunately there was no one in the out-
buildings, op Friday last. It ia thought that the present
occurrence is caused by some excavations which have bees
made there for the purpose of obtaining sand.--Suseex
Advertiser.

Tan Anss~rtrs RIMAINS."—M. de Quatro- I
!ogee has addressed a. thild coininuoication to the Academy
of Weems on the fossil jawbone found at Moulin-Quignon,
near Abbeville, which he now believes to be authentic.
Oslignsai says that some intensities meetings Uwe taken
*am at the Garden of Plante between four diatiegoished
fellows of the Royal Society —MM. Prestwick Palomar,
Burk, and Carpenter --tad MM. Quatrefamm Desoyer,
Faadry, Laded, sod other well-known men of seisms, under
the presidency of Dr. Milne Edwards, of the Lied-
tits, to disease and, if possible, to dead* re the I
autheetkity aid antiquity of the dint hatchets aid hawse
jaw in quashes. Sir John Bowing, being in Paris, was in-
cited to the cooferenee. The result of the examination,
though by oo means of a positive character, have on
the whole served to confirm the doubts expressed
by the British geologists am to the trustworthiness of
these particular specimens of widest eivilisetien. That
large quantities have been fabricated and sold by
French workmen admits of no googlies ' • bet the psis
sees of many of those found at St. Aebeul wee esta-
blished by the unanimous opinion of the coeferenee. se wag
the fraudulent character of the greater number of those
found at Moulin.Quignon. The whole subject, however, to
to undergo a further and more thorough investigation la
the locality.
Among a number of coins just found at Bishop's
Waltham, in Hants, is one of Burped, King of Marcia, MO
of the Kings of the Hopterchy. .

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BATH MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

OC.OONTY MEMBERS' PLATE. One mile..

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Polkas Teddy, Little Savage, Teeeriffe, Verdiere, by
Emapian, and lama Walton are hem.
ACCEPTANCES FOR THE BATH HANDICAP. One

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