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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1864:

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

THE SUSSEX MEETINGS.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOKE CIRCUIT.-.—GIIILDPORD, Atrousr 1.
The conunlision for the county of Surrey was opened
to-day in this town. There will be about twenty pri-
soners for trial, but the priacepel ORM are a charge of
murder, and the charge of reanaleughter, irking out of the
&cadent upon the South-Western Railway, at Ascot Races.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-BODMIN, JULY 30.

CROWN COURT.—(Beforo Mr. Justice Byles.)
The business of the Cornwall Sommer Anuses commenced
today, all 10 o'clock, when Mr. Justice Byke presided in
the Crown Court, and Common Berjeint Chanibma in the
Nisi Prins Court.

Be-examined—He pad her messy to go to London, and ,
gave her money to go to Australia. Ile pre her 251. at
least for that purpose. Ile furnished her hood and paid .11
the bills. It was ad sill other bills for furniture after that
oasis in that he stopped paying.
John Taylor said he came to Manchester by train from
Oldham, and was ping down to the bridge of the Irk oa the
evening of the 22nd March, when he saw the primmer fire a
pistol and felt something strike his breast. (Produced the
waistcoat he wore at the time with a perforation in it.)
Felt a slight droner on the breut next monads. After
that the prosecutor ran pad him, followed by the pet/poser,
and Mr. Whalley went into the station. Prisoner exclaimed,
" shoot you."
Isaiah Taylor, brother of lad winder, said he accompanied I
his brother on the 22nd March, and he heard a pistol dis-
charged. He saw • woman standing with a pistol in her ;
hand on the other side the bridge, and saw the smoke.
A gentleman afterwards passed him running, followed by a
woman, having a pistol in her band. Heard her say, "I'll
shoot you, you —, before sight."
Smith White, • porter at the Victoria Railway station,
said he left the station on this 22nd March at • quarter pad
five. When he had pared the bridge he saw Mr. Whalley
raining down the steps to the bridge. The prisoner wee
running after him. On the topmost step but one she fired a
pistol at Whatley, who was about 14 yards in advance of her
she said, " You villain, I'll kill you before you go home to-
night." Heard Whalley say, • • Keep her back," and windss
tried to keep her back, and to take the pistol from her. Did
not get the pistol ; the prisoner told him to keep off or it
would be the worse for him.
Cross-dannued by Mr. Torr.—Was ten yards from the
steps when he raw Mr. Whalley corning.
John Whalley, porter at the station, said he was on duty
at the station 22nd March, and saw the prisoner paring
through the booking office. She said, " Where is be . la
he in the refreshment rooms ?" Witness gave her in cos-
' Maly, and found the revolver produced in her hand.
Policeman B 66 deposed that be took the prisoner from
the last witness, and also the revolver. He lotus, • spent
cap on one nipple. He measured the distance from where
Taylor was to where the prisoner stood, and it was 77 yards.
William Woodhouse, suounith, said the revolver was
brought to him on the =ad March, mid he examined it.
One chamber had been discharged. A revolution of the
barrel to the second chamber had been prevented by the
bell dipping out of the chamber and getting between it and
the ramrod. The balls had fitted very slackly. There was
powder and ball in each of the other four chambers.
Mr. Davis, pawnbroker, said the inmost called and saw
the revolver (which he had on sale) at his shop about the
let March. She wanted him to load it, and he refused.
She then left, but came back • week after with • soldier,
and bought the pistol. She mid she wanted it far the pro-
tection of the home. A week after that she offered it in pledge
to him, but he refused it hecanes it was loaded. She brought
it again a few days before the 22nd March (unloaded) to
pledge it ; but while the ticket was making out, she ran
out with the pistol. She did not come again.
Mr. Tory, in addressing the jury, said the prisoner was
only twenty years of age when Mr. Whalley first made her
acquaintance. He had examined the depositions before the
magistrates carefully, and he was certainly startled when he
heard him say that day for the first time that the primmer
was • prostitute when be lint made her acquaintance. The
learned counsel commented in severe terms oa the conduct
of the prosecutor in pretending to attempt to reform the
unfortunate girl, arid giving her • copy of the church
service, and at the same time continuing his illicit con-
nexion with her. He dwelt upon the fact that she had
offered the loaded pistol in pawn as summing that she had
not entertained the notion of murdering Mr. Whatley;
but having the pistol in her house for the purpose
of defence foolishly took it with her to threaten him. She
had gone on from degradation to degradatioo, had ultimately
been prostrated by fever, and be suggested that there was
nothing to negative the sappealtiou that he refused further
help (for the solicitor had given her only a sovereign of the
last ten Mr. Whalley had (*dared him to give her) ; she
merely went to shame him, and frighten him into giving
her more money, and did not shoot with the intention of
killing him or doing him any bodily harm.
The jury retired to comer their verdict at a quarter to
2 o'clock, and after a lengthened deliberation Acquittal the
primes,. The verdict was received with loud cheers.

AMICK' TO YORDT.I.
Cyrus Traria wee charred with having. u the 12th May,
given to his wife, Ellen Traria, patient in the Prestwich
Lunatic Asylum, sad about to be discharged, an Eccles cake
containing antimony and semi beat pins, with intent to
murder her.

Ellen Travis, who is AM an inmate in the asylum, said
she remembered the 12th May, when her husband (the pri-
soner) came to visit her. Re gave her some sweets first,
and then, after going away, he came back for his umbrella,
and gave bee a paper containing en Eccles cake, telling bee
to pat it into her pocket quick. She afterwards went to cut
it, with fdp. Downs, and found bent pins in is.
Other witneeses corroborated the statement of Ellen
Travis, and the evidence was to the effect that seven pins
were found in the cake, all bent double.
Ellen Shaw, the matron, proved that the pins were
brought to her, and by her given to the policeman.
A witness named Fielden meld he was collector to the
Royal Liver Friendly Society, and on the 12th May
the prisoner and his wife were mambas. The prisoner wee
in sneer with his Fey, bat on paying up he would be en-
titled to U. 6e. four months front that date, supposing his
wile had died.
. .

John Crriaiey, labourer, went to live with the prisoner
on the 10th of May. Remembered him going to Prestwich
Asylum on the 12th May. He saw him retina sobbing and
crying. He 'eked bins if be had seep his wife, and he said he
bad, sod she was grown into a grey old woman. He said he
had taken two oranges and two Endes cakes. He said
she would come home no more alive, and he would not are
if she was dead and stiff as • poker, for what good she had
been to him but he would take care to keep straight with
the club, and then he could draw the mosey rf she died, and
they must bury her in Prestwich. He asked him if he
would many again, and he mid he had two more women
waiting, and he believed he could many one of them.
A policeman produced part of the cake and the pins.
When taken a white powder was found in his waistcoat
pocket.
Mr. Hudson, analytical chemist, said he received a white
powder from last withers. On emanation be found the
powder to be tartarised antimony, and he also found tar-
tensed antimony in a third of the oaks to answer to a grain
and a half of metallic antimony. Four to five Igraine of
metallic antimony would be suffideut to destroy life.
Dr. Manley, medical gentleman 'Mandl', the asylum,
said the bent pins if they stuck in the threat might cause
inflammation and death, much •as • fishbone would. As to
whether the pins would be likely is to stick, all he could
say was they might or might not—it was a balance of pose.
bilities. They would not be so likely to stick as unbent
Piot.
The prisoner, who was undefended, denied that he
intended to administer either pins or poison to injure his
wife.

Judge having summed up, the jury found a verdict of
Guilty.
Relations deterred.

mule it appear that be WM calm, sad that he bad committed
the offence ocular provocatioo, sad from vindictive motives.
Primmer rephed that be we. cool sad collected while he
di.r.bargesl the pistol..

He it cumulated for trial at the Central Criminal Court,
and Mr. Arnold mid be should under the circumstances of
the ease require the prosecutrix to find one surety in 101. for
her appearance upon the trial.

THAMES.
Catherine Appleby a girl aged 13, was brought tip on
remand before Mr. Pages 'barged with stealing 30f. in gold
from a oseh-box la the dwelling-house of her muter, Mr.
Lse, a clerk, in Butcher-row, Hatcliff, in whom) service she
bad been fifteen hours only.
The prisoner was arrested by her own brother the night
after her Bight as she was coming out of the Marylebone
Theatre with several low girls she had treated to the play.
Her brother took from her W. to.. the remains of the stolen
mosey. She had invested part of it in the purchase of ex-
pansive finery at a lisendraper's shop.
Mr. Oomm, for the primmer, said she admitted taking
W. only, and 'eked that she should be committed to prison
for a short time, and sent to a reformatory school for two
or three years. Mr. Lee was anxious that the CAW should
be summarily disposed of.
Mr. Paget said be could not act on the smestion. This
was a proper cue foe a jury. He committed the prisoner
for trial

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

PORTSMOUTH, Aucter 1.

• •
The Geyser, 6, steam sloop, Commander A. T.
Thrum will embark to-morrow the 2nd battalion of the lit
Royals, for conveyers» to the Channel Islands.
The Himalaya, iron screw troopship, will proceed to Dover,
to embark troops for Portsmouth, and on her return will
embark the 61st Regiment for conveyance to Dublin.
The Rorer, 11, screw sloop, Commander Isaac Smiley,
sailed yesterday. for Plymouth, en route to the llediterrs.
nean. The Tyrian, screw gunboat, which was under orders
to proceed with her, remairm behind, having made signal fur
some defects to be repaired.
The Wolvereoe, 21, screw corvette, Captain Algernon
D'Horaey, nailed yesterday to joie the Channel squadron.
The Royal Sovereign, 5, iron screw turret ship, Coptain
Sherard Caroni, C. 11., arrived in Portsmouth harbour on
Saturday.

ADMIRALTY, ALIOLDT I—APPOINTMENTA. —Pa).
masters J. B. McAvoy, J. M. Jaime, mad E. Harris (W.
ditional), to the Fisstard. Assistant Paymaster H. H. P.
Shanks (additional), to the issgard. Assistant Stugeou G.
V. Hart, to this Cho.

ROYAL NnwrisRESERVE.—The following appoint-
ments have been made :—To be lieutenant, Lawrence
Webster; to be honorary lieutenant, James Price.