The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—DszsY, MAaca 20.
CaowN °oust —(Belon Mr. Justice Williams.)
THE FORGESISS ST A HIRST summon.
Joseph Show, solicitor, Derby, was placed in the dock to
reedy* sentence for the eleven forgeries to which he had
pleaded guilty last nit.
Yr. 0'&i01), who led been retained for the prisoner,
having addressed the court on his behalf,
The learned Judge, addraning the prisoner, said—The
eloquent, affecting, and able appeal which your learned
counsel has made on your behalf cannot fail to make me, as
a man, feel deep compassion for you as one who has fallen
from a station tel respectability and apparent prosperity to
such abject shame, disgrace, and misery. But, sitting here
disc my duty to the 'public, I am bound to look
without shrinking it the Licts of the case, and at the
heinous nature of the offence to which you have pleaded
guilty. These facts appear to be, that you, from your high
character as a respectable solicitor, enjoying the confidence
of the public and of your &seta, abused the trust reposed
in you, and, in the desperate effort to maintain your pool.
Non in society, entered upon sad persevered in a nuns of
froldjdoudishowitolyi and forgery that has bat few parallels in
the of nune—a caner which you well knew, a few
Lean ago, must have closed by your death on the scaffold.
The sentence of the court is that you be committed for 15
years to penal servitude.
The prisoner, who did not appear to be very much af-
fected, was then removed from the dock.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—BURY ST. EDMUND&
KARON 80.
CROWN COURT.—(Before the Loyd Chief Baron Pollock.) I
CRAIOI or MURDER.
Witham& Batley was indicted for the wilful murder of R.
Mullett.
Mr. Stephenson appeared for the prosecution : and Mr.
Cherry for the defence.
It appears that on Friday, the 14th inst., the prisoner, •
lad of 15, was " keeping crows " for his =aster, and
i/.= dinner-time he, with his brother, • lad
Revitt, and the deceased were playing
together in a cart-shed, when the deceased—• lad of 14—
wished to have prisoner's gun to shoot • bird with, but the
latter refused to let him bare it, which pre rise to •
scuffle, and the prisoner was beard to may "D— you, l'U
shoot you." The report of the gun immediately followed,
and deceased cried out, " Oh, I'm shot," and presently fell
into the arms of his father, who happened to be at work in a
place close by, and who rushed into the shed on hearing
the report. The prisoner appeared to be much distressed,
and on being apprehended, said that deceased had got bold
of the muzzle of the gun, end it went off without his being
able to help it. Deceased died the following morning.
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, with a
strong recommendation to mercy.
The prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

NORTHERN OIROUIT.—LIVEUPOOL, MAIM 21.
Mr. Justice Mellor presided is the Crown Court to-day,
owing to the ma-arrival of Mr. Justice W ills from York,
but will take chugs of the civil business on Saturday. In
deliveries his charge to the grand jury, Mr. Justice Heller '
alluded to the very large number of stabbing cues whist
the calendar contained, and tiongratabited the Liverpool
authorities upon having issued a placard remiuding bead-
ing-house keepers, captains, and all persons who bad say
Influence over 'adore, to prevent, if possible, their carrying
knives about with them. His lordship also alluded to two
cases of murder, is one of which a husband
I was charged with shooting his wife at Rochdale,
under some motive of jealoury. The 'aimed Judge
explained that, so fares he could understand the depositions,
; these were no motives of jealousy in this cue which would
at all mitigate or palliate the crime. The jury were,
therefore, bound to return •• true bill. The other can of
murder was that of • child, the murderess being its own
mother. The prisoner, after having attended to the child
for some three or four weeks, suddenly, and from no anis:t-
able motive, ended its life by throwing it into the river.
The learned judge mid that though there were other cues
of • very serious nature they were very simple in their de-
tails, and did not require notice.
The criminal bugloss' was then proceeded with.