The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-22 00:00:00

V. 4033 iintellmence.

EQUITY COURTS.--SATURDAT.
1RT11.1.1 111 1.11.00L•1'04/11. —lllllllll4 1.1111 LOYD CIIMICIKSAII.
Tue Lord Chancellor disp!ised of a loop list of pe-
titions in lunacy. The following cases only presented any
feature of pablk interest : _

ill 111 Ilteces.—'tine YVIID

In this esaeliteee W Mat Mae taaeMead a kw, which
amounted to a eau el AM Spie* Tee ed the teuetoes
were dead, and the WM use a base' ad. k append,
that about half tithe had bed bees le base.

ae;eeT• the Mester,
with the view to the appsiamese at sew Imam.
The Lord Chemiller, ia ramose Is the mission of say
statement, whether the MI had hiss invested or sot, said
hi should require is le eseapiseely misled is that respect.
TM petitioa met theeseire samded.
Is as gctresimpi.--Paxerics.

This ease preemdedne material fur a report, but a of
of practice was advising' Is, which may interest professional
madam. The petition was under the Trastee Ant, and was
simply headed—" la lunacy."
The Lord Chancellor remarked that it should also have
been beaded—" In chancery."
lw no Cmosi•zi. IT COMMITI2I.—Rurox-
-

111111LITY OF COUNIIRL. .
In this sass the room opoeisitod so committee of the
lunatic, had. mat at his son isisooy. paid • sum of 80W. in
respect of Ant sisoilioi la the woe of the lunatic, to the
persons who were Asp* to be entitled to it. An applies.
fiat woo sow made that the stock should be transferred to
the asarialins.

TM Lori Cherestior remarked that the application was
of an ontensedbeey nature.
The Isom& orrasel for the applicant said, the money
had Ibsen pea ens a his client's own pocket.
The Lod Chirrellor said, if be had the money in his
pocket, he ahead hove kept it than. He inset look very
strict)
e isms tide waterer, Wore he made any order, for et
ere of the oar Ness be hid ever
known. In the mom et** one his Waned on
the her the reeresity of regtriarg the strietot sere in pre-
senting en overate statemert of facts In paltiosts. Is his
charts of the imolai of bratio he hod M ozonise •
jurieilstdon of • coy dank red reaper ills Ware. On
ci poste applicator he had to mike pedalo the abet of
which sight peed* he to lard over the property of a
lunatic or his owed nee trusts to peewee who ore net en-
titled to it. Ito wait, therefor+, us the dieologe of
Bros
duty, depend very 11110i1 ea Os he resolved
frees the ostiorrn ef the ,her ea* he ebbed it te he
Cooly anieseteed thet beeold in one embler sera-
rel persorally respendtd• the elermest of petitlea•
Every statement, too, neat he ebb* preeed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.--Lrins, MARCH 20.

Bayou Mo Smut PIMA..
Sarah Anne Area, aged 27, was indicted for the wilful
murder of W. French. The particulars of this case have
already bees fully reported in the Bzprest. The trial
war commenced on Friday, and terminated on Saturday
inuring. The following, is an outline of the evidence :
John French, a brother of the deceased, mid that the last
time he saw his brother alive was ea Christmas Eve, when
be was in very good health. On the morning of the 7th of
January be saw him dyad. The prisoner was crying when
he got to the cottage, but be *spotted to see her hurt a good
deal more.

-A
Witness proved that the prisoner ked amide is herpes.
seadoa _ _

Mr. 11. Holman, a surgeon, said he had made a post-
mortals examination of the body, but discovered no muse
from which death could have proceeded. At that time
there was no suspicion of the deceased having been poi-
soned.

Dr. Taylor, who had examined the contents of the intes-
tines, proved the presence of arsenic.
Mary Bennett stated that when the body of the deceased
was taken up fur examination, the prisoner said all she was
afraid of was that they should find poison in him.
James Hickman, a young men about 20, was then
examined, end said he had been in the habit of visiting
the deceased and the prisoner. He had first gone to the
house while be was courting the prisoner's sister. He was
often in the cottage while the deceased was absent, and the
prisoner had more than once told him that she loved him,
and she had often kissed him. After detailing many fami-
liarities which ban taken place between the prisoner and
himself, the witness acknowledged having had guilty inter-
course with her. lie denied ever having purchased arsenic,
or having any in his possession.
On cross-examination, the witness said that the prisoner
had told him thatshe had got as much as 6001., and if sbe
were to marry him she could keep him without his being
obliged to work. The deceased had bought some arsenic to
kill mice with the day before Christmas-day. The night
after the funeral of the deceased witness was called out of 1
his bed to go and see the prisoner, and be went to the cot-
tage and stayed the remainder of the night with her. They
had some conversation shout the death of her husband, and
the prisoner said that if any poison was found in his body he
must have taken it himself.
After some further evidence had been given,
Mr. Rodwell addressed the jury for the prisoner, and
begged that they would not find her guilty, unlessthey
were of opinion that no other hand than hers had adminis-
tered the poison, from which the deceased had evidently
died. He then commented upon the conduct of Hickman,
whip, he said, from the gross criminality of his conduct,
I was es likely as the prisoner to have given the poison.
Mr. Baron Parke, in summing up, said that if *obey
thought the poison was administered by any other hand
than that of the prisoner, still if they =me to the conclusion
that she was cognisant of the fact, she was equally guilty of
the crime of murder.

The jury retired at • quarter past three, and at Ave
o'clock they again came into court, and the foreman said—
We find the prisoner guilty of murder, bet some of the
jury are of opinion that the poison may bare been adminis-
tered by some other party, and that the prisoner was only
an accessory before the fact, and we wish to know whether
that makes any difference?
Mr. Bsron Parke asked the jury if they were unani-
mously of opinion that the prisoner either administered
poison herself, or knew of its being administered by some
one else ?

said they were unanimously agreed upon these
polite.
Mr. Baron Puke—Then that amounts to a verdict of
wilful warder. _ _

Theeser was then called span in the usual form to
state she bed anythieg to lay why judgment of
death should settse pared up*
She me* es,
her t
The leaned J pekes the Mask cep, and, addressing
the primer, mid bed bele amid* an the use, clear-
est 'Aimee et the deemitd grime wartiveles. by _palms,
her Meimed, when It wee Mr duty Mhave *mil had she-
fished. It was a aims, mar eirmeesteneem of the
very bleakes dyes she appeased le have einimitted it
under alreuet geed aggnmeileis. She une
thereby% manta* ea legs et matey is die weld, and
be esteemed 14rAileare verenteme M pigeon be the
We whisk an and ismitably awabether. He then
passed SIMMS death is the mad Mee.
The /einem who bad been by the turnkeys
while des senegies was being was Men carried
out of Me Asa. The yeang awn we. in court
when the eseaseas was given, end be heard his wretched
parent embeed be eneestlea witheat betraying the
we modem
Deem tea. SWIM Onaartim.
Jolts Anabolism, 28, engine delver, was indicted for the
manslaughter of haft Martin.
The prosecution arose out of an amident that occurred in
the month of December last to a trails belonging to the
Brighton Railway Company at • bridge over the river
Arun. It appeared that upon this bridge there was only
ate line of rails, sad that the teat train at night
and a goods train generally sled lit mat neat the
same boar. The defendant was an &bee epee the
eteasion, and it appeared that, Weed et his obeying the
signal to stop, he drove an the MIN end the anew
queues was that a collision leek glees, gad the dame&
who was a stoker, was killed. The primacy miter the
accident had happened eat his threat s.d =
into the river with • view te dram
and it was with ems digitally that be was mei
It appeared, in the Nano of the saes. that the bridge
having one line of rails wee lest the halt of the oniaputy,
I but that in mammies et b beings navigable deer, the
Admiralty intsrdsseed the eandeawesate: beadily a wider
=saga dm ewe eery te de it bey bid min
. Oa WieM et the it wee nerd that,
tZsi heel Amman oa the night in esedien, he was
to look Aar hint, to see that the deem wee pro-
perly kept up, eel having leaked at the lie just his.. he
arrived at the met in needle% the glue et It denied his
eyes, and parvisted hint hem emits the dignal,, end that
the abides we* the nosh Opole sedsimel.
Th. jury reamed • Talbot of Nat OW*.
Clarks* La** 42, widow, wee %bad be the man-
slaughter of limns Larkin, • child tee mem% dd.
This wee MO of those eases se frequelly ONIIIIIies In
the coma., where the deaths of &shim have been tow
shoed
wawa by the
to th adeoelablreelea of mangos amid mime Alate.
rest peeler than lee the rupees et "esello
ing" their Mabee. la the menet lestame it appeared
that the prisoner bed bees in the habit of her obild
Wideman, sad apse the meadas In the
child mere masa than ulna], she eiminimered an *-
creased deme, the so
e. _ ywhower
.welch MN that it died
shortl elbarwardma te lave
I always peoriewity amblldeed peat lbederepu kw the ANC
sad there was se petted ter supposing ere she had my
idea of the ilegerous coneetwomess that men likely to
moue from bee eesduet.
She was heed Cw4y, and eintenced M Ogee menthe
hard labium

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lroaroos.
Tile ceereheks he die
wee South
at lAsseibleedidete
opposed es liatarliay Liaerpol. bt Mr.
Berea Ahmed, who awhod hi tient about but e'dedt.
whoa the learned heillp tau set et the Newsy Maths by
T. Piedra' Herrera, J6l, dte Mlsh dborK, awl the doh
Haan, wherth 'ud e
the QeillreeersiYetamideePlus oar sildr:LeiTtem et:
judge, Mr. Judge Creme% bat sat aloha& la latarpod
on Saturday maid. bat woo names* la the MINS
gineterity, when
Mem tOOO bee *air halld roma al" Whaled lo
lied
tho to
*SP* =Me buds= id dr win la *all to marsaaas
at 10 Velma Ma mormias. Tba aahador
beery, sad Newlin as kw tin sham obarasa:=
saurdw awlsomblotatio array of robbiries wilt
D day the primroses tar was browaltizE
by rallway, awl aoavoyod to gad.