The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

TEE 14APRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1863.

Lord PALMERSTON—I have had occasion to look over
it with some care, and I think the noble lord will fled it
such as I have described.

Mr B. ZbeflßZNE—Perhaps the noble lord can tell us
whether the events which have recently occurred at Athena
are likely to lead to delay is the arrival of the King. (A
laugh.)
Lord PALkIEBBTON—The King must determine for
himself when he will go. (Laughter.) But if lam asked
whether I see any mama in what has happened for delay, I
say I see none certainly. (Hear, hear.)

THE IRISH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM.
In reply to Mr. GREGORY,
Sir R. PEEL stated, that in cooseqnence of what ap-
peered to be the general feeling of Irish members, the
amalgemetion of the Irish lodustrial Museum with the
Royal Dublin Society would not be carried into effect before
the next union. But although nothing had at preaent
been done with regard to the amalgamatioo, the matter wee
not abandoned, but would be further considered.

hall. He submitted this case in the full conviction that
Mr. Herrick* would be deemed entitled to some compensa-
tion at the hands of her Majesty. government.
Sir G. GREY said that the property VAS pro-
' Wily disposed of below its real value, and certainly
below Mr. Bewicke's estimate, and what was
now sought for was the differeoce between that estimate
and the amount which the property actually real Led. This
was not a onein which the law was in fault, but one of
those cams of the failure of justice arising from the unsatis-
factory nature of human evidence which must sometimes
occur. Still it mart be remembered that Mr. Bewicke's
sufferings were brought about to a great extent by his own
conduct, by his acting in a way in which scarcely another
person would have acted under similar circumstances.
Sir F. KELLY said the statement of his hon. friend had
been met with • degree of coolness which might be very
becoming in the administration of justice, but which wee
somewhat out of place when a claim wee made for compensa-
tion for injuries of this nature. (Hem.) It was impossible
to listen to the details of this case without feeling that there
wee some grievous defect in the law, and if the law
could not be amended to meet each particular case as it
occurred, the all was imperative for the immediate mer-
ciful and liberal oonsiderntion of the government.

—The iOLICITOR-GENERAL thoOght they should not
be led away too much by their feeling, in cases of particular
hardship so as to forget that at the bottom of these cases
was a question of general law. The claims of Mr. &wicks
had been stated in a very pathetic manner by the bon. gen!
tleman, and it was undeniable that great hardship had
been suffered ; but it was no greater hardship than any
gentleman who was the subject of a criminal prosecution
boos fide entered upon as far as the officers of the law
were concerned, was liable to, from the actual state of the
law. There were two important questions involved in inch
cases as these—first, whether a court of criminal appeal
could be constituted which should deal with such owes—
but even an appeal would not have met this case, because it
was admitted that the evidence was sufficient, and the ver-
dict right, and, secondly, when and in what manner com-
pensation should be granted. The greatest authorities bad felt
that there would be very great difficulties in establishing a
satisfactory criminal appeal, though he hoped those dif .
cultism would not be found to be altogether insuperable.
With regard to the question of compensation, if the principle
of compensating in every case of this kind was to be adopted,
it was a matter for consideration what charge it would in-
volve upon the public revenue, and how that chargelwas to
be met. A gentleman had no more right than the poorest
person to redress, and the number of cases where this sort
of thing occurred was greeter than was commonly supposed.
The house divided : _ _

Ayes 2O
Noes 22-2
So the mottos was lash This result was received with
ironical cheers. _ _

JAPAN.

Mr. COCHRANE called attention to oar present relations
with Japan. As it appeared we were on the eve of • war
be thought the house was bound to all for information on
the subject. He reviewed the chief incidents of our inter-
course with the Japanese, from which he drew the conclu-
sion that they had been subjected to compulsion and, in
the exchange of money, to extortion, and he reed copious
extracts from the papers laid before the house to show that
we were not justified in the premise put upon the Japanese
government. He urged upon the house the duty of mar-
tieing precisely the grounds of the war upon which we
were entering, and be concluded by moving for certain
Plhrs. e motion waa seconded by Mr. LIDDELL, who con.
tended that the treaty obtained from the Japanese bad
been extorted by fear, that it was ill-considered and
hastily drown, and that by the law of Japan it was not
binding upon the great territorial barons.
Mr. LAYARD, in replying to Mr. Cochrane, said he
lamented as much as anyone that we were forced to make
demands upon Japan, but in doing so the government were
only performing an absolute duty. He justified the treaty,
and insisted that the Tycoon had authority to conclude a
treaty with us. The outrages committed by the Japanese,
he observed, were not against Englishmen only, hot against
Russians and Americans. We bad been extremely mode-
rate in our demands, but we were bound to ask for repent-
tioo. He trusted that we should not be forced to go to
war, and that our demands would be acceded to. The Prince
of Satsuma, the peat offender, he believed, was accessible,
and could be made responsible for his acts. He objected to
give the papers.

The maim was withdrawn.
POLICE CHARGES AT PETTY EMMONS.

Mr. W HAT LEY moved for •
---raiTriaof all oTaWrieiorpe
made by the police before magistrateeLisztty seenriimiwitne or at
police courts which on the heanngbees
toe-ether with the amount paid by the persona so charged for
Date, from the 314 day of December, 1862, to the 30th day
of June, 1863.

A:.;; ;few obeervstions from Sr G;Glinr, the motion,
in en eme►ded form, wee agreed to.
DISSENTING CHAPELS, &c.

➢gr. NEWDEGATE moved an address "for return from
the chief constable, superintendent, or officer in command
of the polios in each county, city, borough, town, or die.
trict of Great Britain, showing each chapel or place of
worship, other than those of the established church ; and
further, each monastery, station, convent, or religions house,
which has been used or inhabited during the year ending
August, 1863, within the district of such officer, stating the
county and parish in which such chapel or house is situate,
the denomination, sect, order, or religion of those by whom
each chapel or house has been used or inhabited, and the
name by which such chapel or house is known."
Sir G. GREY said he thought the less the police had to
do with any discrimination between the variona religious
establishments of the country the better. (Hear, hear.) It
would be highly impolitic and inexpedient to impose nine
the police any such ditty. At the same time ha thought if
the hoe. gentleman were to vary the terms of his motion so
as to make it extend only to the information already in the
possession of the Registrar-General, then would be objection
to the motion.

Mr. NEWISEGATE amid he would not pnee the motion.
The motion was then withdrawn.
CAPE OF GOOD ROPE CONTRACT.
Mr. PEEL moved that the militant for the conveyance
of the Cape of Good Rope mails with the Union Steam
Ship Company be approved.
After a few words from the CHANCILLOR of the KICHI-
QUIIt, the resolution wee agreed to.

THE GALWAY CONTP.ACT.
On the resolution for the above coistraet,
Mr. PEEL stated, in answer to Mr. Dilino. that
Galway warn to be the port of departure for the mails, and
not merely. port of
Resolution agreed to.
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lab intringtect.

EQUITY COURT.—JuLT 21.
(Before the Mute a/ the Ral/s.)

THOMPSON O. DO WWI.
The late baronet, Sir G. Bowyer, mortgaged certain of his
estates in 1814 to Mews. Hoare., the bankers, and subse-
quently granted an annuity charged on the same estates to
periwig wider whom the present plaintiffs claimed. In
1816 Menem Hoarse took poseassion, which they retalued
till 1839, when the present baronet paid off their charge and
took an sisigument of the mortgage. The annuity bad not
been paid for many years, sod the plaintiffs applied to Sir
G. Bowyer fee anaccountof the rent■. profile, ke., which was
refused, on the grouod, in substance, that the plaintiffs bad no
title to the annuity claimed. They now Sled this bill,
relying on a letter written to them by the defendant to
take the case out of the statute of limitations.
Mr. Southgate, Q.C., and Mr. Stock were for the plaintiffs;
the Solicitor-General and Mr. Wickens were for the
defendant, but were not called upon ; and Yr. Selwyn,
Q.C., and Mr. Ware for other parties.
His Honour held that the letter in question did not take
the cam out of the statute, and that the bill must therefore
be dismissed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK CIRCIIIT.—BiwroRD, Joey 20.

The coramissioe was opened here on Saturday by Mr.
Justice Wightnian.
Mr. Justice Wightman sat in the Crown Court.
Edacard Turrey alias Edmund Carpenter, a blacksmith,
surrendered to his bail, charged with feloniously marrying
Ann Harris, his wife, Harriet Turner, being then alive.
Mr. Hillam Mills appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Abdy defended the prisoner.
It is seldom a case of bigamy pommels any point of in-
tenet to make it worthy of notice, bet here an unusual
feature appeared. The prisoner was the illegitimate lon of
• man named Torrey, but was baptised and commonly known
by the name of Carpenter, his mother's name. In 1858 he
was married to his first wife, who soon left him ; and it
seems that he told the parson whom be married last that he
was half drunk when he married, that it was a lark, and
that be was married in his wrong name and the banns were
put up in a wrong name, end the woman knew it.
Mr. Abdy, on these facts, contended the marciage was not
valid, the Marriage Act requiring • true description of the
name, Ac., to be published by banns.
His lordship mid, if the jury were of opinion both parties
were aware of the miadeacription, it would be so.
The jury at once Acquitted the prisoner.
Nal PRICES 00M.—Before the Lord Chief Baron.
MASON C. PEARNAN.

Mr. D. D. Keane and Mr. 1). Brown were for the plain-
tiff ; and Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., for the defendant.
This was the breach of promise case, and it appeared from
the evidence that the defendant was • farmer in good cir-
curostanom, and the plaintiff the daughter of • respectable
farmer in Berkshire, occupying the situation of schoolmis-
tress at • charity school in Loudon, with a salary of 401.
per annum. She was 26 years of age, and the defendant was
67. In July, 1861, the tender passion seems to have taken
• strong hold upon the defendant, for, in • turnip field, he
made • declaration to the father of the young lady,
to the effect that he " did not know what was the
matter with him, for he was thinking so much about
his daughter that 12/1 kept pulling up turnip. and putting
them in again." At another time he cried • good deal, and
said he would have married her long ago but for his family,
and taking her band declared he would marry her, and
there would not be each another at the Exhibition. Be-
coming confidential about his circumstances he told her he
had 500/. • year from land, and money in railway shares.
Upon this the young lady consented, as did her friends,
sad she left her situation in London. The marriage was to
have taken place in January, this year, and • handsome
settlement to have been made. To the plaintiff's brother
he gave • sovereign for the purchase of • ring; but not-
withstanding all that happened and wee said, "the course
of true love did not run smooth." The defendant suddenly
altered his mind and refused to perform his promise.
On his behalf the only point urged for bim by his
counsel was his age and the youth of the plaintiff ; but
The jury, after bearing the summing up of the Lord
Chief Baron, thought hews" old enough to have known
better," and mulcted him in 2501. damages.

JULY 21.

CROWN COURT.—(Bsfore Mr. Justice Wightmeu.)

Robert Jordan, 21, and William Craddock, 33, were
charged with the wilful murder of Frederic Bodd on the
10th of May last. They were also charged with the like
offence upon the coroner's inquisition.
Mr. Mills, Q.C., and Mr. Stephenson were for the prose-
cution ; Mr. Metcalfe defended Jordan; and Mr. Serjeant
Tozer defended the primmer Craddock. The court was
densely crowded all day. Both prisoners reside in Bedford,
Jordan being a journeyman blacksmith, and Craddock a
journeyman carpenter. This was a very extraordinary case
in many respects. The evidence, as proved to-day in court,
pointed clearly to the assault having been committed by
two civilians, whilst the deceased all along persisted in lay-
ing some soldiers attacked him. Another remarkable cif,
cumstenoe was that this murder was committed on a Sun.
day night, about 11 o'clock, within a hundred yards of the
Rmhatreet, Bedford, and three men saw the brutal ill•
usage to which the deceased was subjected. and made
no attempt to assist him. These men were the chief
witnesses to-day against the prisoners. What made the
matter more extraordinary was that both the prisoners had
excellent characters given them by a number of very respec-
table tradesmen resident to the town.

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The deceased, Frederick Budd, was a solicitor at Bucking-
ham, but in cousuence of the recent death of his aunt,
who had lived in this town, he was staying at her house,
No. 12, Kimbolton-road. On Sunday, the 10th of May, Mr.
Budd and his wife had spent the evening with Mr. Trapp, •
draper, in High-street, and left his house at about ten
o'clock, to sup with Mr. Pulley, an auctioneer, living in St.
Paul's-square. Having supped, they left his house
for home a few minutes after eleven, and tamed
out of the High-street down Castle-lane, when
they overtook the two prisoners and some other men.
The militia at this time were out for their annual drill, and
to the umber of 600 were quartered in the town, and at
the time the unfortunate Mr. Budd was on his way borne
the public-houses were being cleared and the streets were
crowded. Mrs. Bndd said the men who attacked her hus-
band were dressed as soldiers, and there was a civilian
amongst them, and that her husband, upon some other
soldiers coming up, was assisted from the ground by them.
In the first instance some soldiers were charged with the
' mime, and Lieutenant Boultbee, when before the coroner,
said that Mrs. Budd complained to him that her husband
had been hurt by some soldiers. The poor woman probably
at this time was oonfosed and agitated, for it was but a few
minutes after the assault that this statement was made, and
when she and her husband were at the door of the house of
Captain Boultbee, the chief constable of the county police,
and to whom they had at once gone to meat complaint.
The deceased seemed to be then under the impression that
the soldiers had assaulted him, for to Lieutenant Book.
bee (whose father, Captain Boultbee, was ill in bed)
he stated that he had been knocked down by some soldiers,
and that he met a picket and told the sergeant what had
happened, but that the sergeant said he was drunk sod did
not know what he was about. Lieutenant Boultbee Padded
that all this time he It emcd very confused ; and no wonder,
for in about three hours he died, and the surgeon who
attended him. Mr. Robert Coachman. on making a post-
mortem examioatioo' found • [texture of the skull of •
zigzag character above an inch and a half in length, and
about four ounce, of clotted blood between the brain and
the dun meter. There were also a fracture of both the
nasal bones and clotted blood in the nostrils, and abraded
wounds about the left eye and forehead, also considerable
extravasation of blood between the pericranium and frontal
bones, corresponding with the situation of the abres,on of
the skin on the external aortae.. That these injuries
were the cause of death was certain, but by whom
indicted became the question. For the prosecution
it was 'tided and proved that the prisoners Jordan and
Craddock and • black man were in Castle-lane at the time
Yr. and Mrs. Budd were passiog, and that Craddock rolled
up against Mr. Budd. Upon this Mr. Budd maid, "You
cowardly fellow, what did you do that for ; give me your
name, sir, if you please." upon which Craddock struck him
with his right hand, saying " That is my name." Mrs.
Budd by this time had disengaged her arm, and the prisoner
Jordan then struck Mr. Budd, and he fell to the ground.
Both prisoners then attacked him, and the black man ran
off in alarm. Mr. Budd had • stick in Lis hand, but seems
only have used it to ward off the blows, and one of the wit-
nesses, • man of the name of Hatton, " the gentleman
' did not Lit either of them, because be had not the chance,
and he left them hitting at the gentleman."
The black man, who described himself as a ship's
cook, said they both struck the gentleman and
knocked him down. " I saw them both beating
him on the ground with their fists, and I ran away.
One witness said the poor man called out, "Is there a
Christian friend here who will assist me?" and Mrs. Budd
also implored assistance. Mrs. Budd raised him from the
ground, and when they bad got a few yards some soldiers
and civilians came up, to whom Mrs. Budd said, " 1 have
been gyms!), insulted—l want protection," and shortly after
the two prisoners cams up, and Craddock several times said,
"It served the right ; be was drunk." Another wit-
ness who saw the attack also ran away, and the only assist-
ance the unfortunate man bad seems to have cane from his
wife and some Mal who met him shortly after. In addition
to the evidence given by Lieutenant Boultbee, a police-con-
stable was calles‘ who also deposed to the deceased hashes
up to the time of his death persisted in saying it was
soldiers that ill-used him.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Serpent Tozer addressed the jury
upon these facts, resting the cam for the prisoners mainly
upon the fact that Mrs. Budd in the first instance, and the
deceased throughout, declared the men who made the
attack were soldiers—a circumstance that left the case in
gnat doubt, and which must make the MAO( the jury un-
usually difficult. 7be other point urged for the defence was,
supposing the jury were satisfied the prisoners committed
the mann which caused the death of Mr. Budd, were they
not acting on a provocation, and from • notion that what
they Wall doing was in self-defence? In that cam their
verdict must Ilm."l"o.'taf'. . . . . .

After several saber-is had been called to speak to the pri-
amen' characters aa quiet sod steady men, his lordship
summed op the evidence, sod the jury returood a verdict of
msollaughter ; sod the Named judge sentenced the pri-
wows to seven years' pearl samtude.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before the Assietent.ludge.)
William Ford, convicted of dealing a watch, was brought
up for judgment.
Poliasconstable Holmes, 3 F, proved the following eon-
victiorie against the prisoner :—Four months on the 16th
of Fs , 1859 ; be was sentenced to six months on the
28th of Fe , 1859, at the Old Bailey ; he was sea.
towed to three years to • ship school, the Cornwall ; he
escaped from the ship, and the above constable yea told of
it, but before be could apprehend him be committed the
robbery for which he is charged.
The Assistant Judge briefly addressed the prisoner as to
the career be bed run, and sentenced him to be kept in
peed servitude for four years.
William Sarnia! Tudor, 26, porter, was indicted for
stealing five bottles of port wine, value 25e., the property of
the Great Western Railway Company.
William Brown said-1 reside at Marlborough. On the
3rd of July I sent off • hamper with port 1111:16 in bottles to
• Mr. Woodall, Barnsoury-park. I coded it and sealed it.
I gave it to • carrier named Pearos, and he took it to the
Marlborough station.
Thomas Pearce, the carrier, corroborated this statement.
Thomas Stone, a lad, said—l assist my father at the
Marlborough station. I remember on the .7.rd of July •
parcel coming to me to be weighed. It weighed 3 qrs. Mb,
I recollect the seal. It was • endow device.

Thomas Preston—l am a porter at Hungerford. On the
4th of July I received the parcel and the receiving note. I
placed it on the van for Paddington.
A polioe-oonstable at Paddington said that on the morn-
ing of the 4th of July he was on duty at the Paddington
station. The luggage van came up about a quarter to three
in due course. I saw the prisoner about the trucks. I saw
the prisoner do something to the hamper. Afterwards I saw
him put his hand in the hamper. I then went and told
Sergeant Goldsmith. We soon afterwards apprehended
him, and he said, " Have mercy on me for the eke of my
poor mother, and do what you can for me."
Sergeant Goldsmith corroborated this statement.
Mr. Healey briefly addressed the jury for the prisoner,
but the jury found the prisoner Guilty, and recommended
him to mercy.
The Assiatant Judge ordered that he should be brought
up next session for judgment.