The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

The sort was dismay weeded. The defendant was placed
in the doily sad appeared sal= aid collected.
Mr. Ttaeysg Q.C., sad Mr. Haddlestoue were enamel for
the agewestios; Mr. Cierksoo, Kr. Crippe, and Mr. Soot-
were Ist thandefeatest.
TIN tihe Dr. Giles fleet, with having re-
primanded Oat a IllebutTual aid Jan* Green were married
os the led of Cs sober, mum. they were married on the
6th of Oeteber,ll.4 i oseesdly, that be bad said they bad
bees married lc litense, whereas they were net ; sad,
thirdly, that be -hod said they were married in the presence
eue ChaeleMo Tats, whines they were not.
of
It 'gruel that a Joss Green was is the service
of Dr. Odes—• as. of great literary attainments, sad
who suet mach of his time is study—and who
was one of the eldpeadiary curates of the parish church
of Bamptos. Ast man named Robert Pratt. a
shoemaker la , was paying his address a to Jane
Green, and on Tit y, the itli of October, lest year, at
six o'clock la the easneing, they wort married at the pariah
church by Dr. Giles. They were seen to enter the shank,
however, by a fanner named Edwards, who talked abaci
such an unusual ocourrenete, and inquiring Weltaillaills. Os
tie 2nd of March, Dr. Giles obtais4 ties the led&
clerk the keys of the chest where the seMMsre of marriages
were kept, and on the clerk examiniar it some few days
afterwards, he found an entry stating that Pratt and Green
had been married on the 3rd, and that Charlotte Tate (alto
a servant of Dr. Giles) was a witness. The matter now
g
besa to be talked about oozy widely, and Dr.
tote made
use of most conflieting stories. He wrote the Lord
Bishop, In October, three times. The first mixers the 11th of
Or.ober, in which he says that the gill asked him to merry her
and Pratt, on the 3rd, to which he consents& The letter pro.
Guided : " Next morning I married them between the hours of
eight and ton, in the presence of two invited witnesses (a
third having failed to come), and with open doors, through
which entered two other persons unknown. When the
ceremony was over, and the books, as they thought, properly
dyed, the young man left rather hastily without my notic-
ing Meat one of the entries was incomplete. I told the girl
be Nue with him the next morning, or Thursday. bile
some with hint about half-past six, and I went with them
to see the entry complete. A gossip of the village spread
the report that they went to be married. Hence the whole
report." The next letter to his lordship was written on the
24th of October, after the inquiry before the magistrate
had taken place, in which he admitted that he had ciliate-
I presented the facts in the former letter ; that he did marry
them on the Thursday morning ; but solemnly declared he
did not know that eight o'clock was the limit of time for
begianieg • marriage. He admitted also in the same letter
that there was no license, but earnestly in d his lord-
ship to pity his folly. The letter continued : " I had no fraudu-
lent istentioa. I bad no benefit whatever from the • fie,
and foolishly thought,thought at all, that the parties
were answerable for the Bernie. Every one who knows
me will say it was reckless neglect. In this light, my lord,
1 hope you will forgive or excuse the felonious crime, as I
sow tor the first time know it to to. I crave your pardon,
and that of say other person who may be concerned in the
matter. Hy prospects are already ruined." The third
letter was written on the 28th October. It ran thus:—
" My Lord,—Thoush utterly unworthy ever to receive a
letter from you again, and wholly ungrateful, as it would
appear, for the couoderation which you have shown me, I
venture again to write, so soon after the date of my last
letter, because everything I can say is too little to express
the agonies of my mind at what has occurred. The heaviest
cause of distress is to me that I should have suffered myself,
even by legal advice, to let the truth be misatated to your
lordship. I have no excuse but that the dreedfal prospect
of felony, with fourteen years' transportation, quite over-
whelmed every sentiment of propriety and every leCiug but
that of ictease horror. May I plead, my lord, that when I
recovered from the brat pang of madness I forbade every one
to speak of misrepresenting the facts, and gave an account of
the whole affair to hinawho stated it before the magistrates.
I agate solemnly declare that I never heard of the law which
I forbade marriages before 8 o'clock, and imposed such heavy
pm—slats for that, and also for marrying without a license.
mysel
laid my solemn declaration that no gain or advantage to
f Oadsenced me in them ter. The sole cause of my
so &Lief was that reckless rashness to which I have ever
bees liable in doing the first thing that suggests itself to
Me. This was my impulse then. It was notorious to CI
my family that this young woman was going to be married
he the young man. I was at she time overwhelmed with
hard work from various causes. Mr. Adams Wog away, I
hod additioul sermons. I bad six pupils preparing for
Oxford and the army, with whom was occupied six hours
• day ; and thirdly, my dear child belonging to Christ
Church School had been sent home in • fever, and with his
Ws despaired of ; tie nights had I sat up with my wife,
troolistai his suffering+. At the end of this time it was
that mouthing was said of our servant's marriage, and I, in
a otomost of rashness and folly, said, " Shall I marry you
tolsorrow morning ?" The offer was eagerly caught at ;
the hour of 8 was named, but, failing to come, they requested
ms to same an earlier hour for.two days after. On this point,
too, I sweated, but this time not from thoughtlessness, but
pure ignorance. They went away, and spoke of it openly
within an hour. These was no idea of a:clandestine mar-
riage, but only to avoid a number of pensions at the cere-
[ noisy. • • • Enough, I am aware, remains, my lord,
Ise overwhelm me utterly: unless you hold out a merciful
hand to save me. Do I dare
Bask you ? Some one has
hinted to me no; because I had given your lordshiti trouble
by my two books on theological subjeets. But I will not
leases that you harbour one thought against me on that
mount, and 1 ask your lordship to help me in as bitter a
brill as ever befel a clergyman. In this last word lies the
origin of my misfortunes. During the 23 years that I have
been ia orders I n practised my profession until the
last few. leafs at Hampton; and even there I have been re-
garded as • mere help to others, leaving to them sll pato-
chial matters. The cause of this was the necessity of being
ordained in orders to hold a fellowship ; and so I am bit-
terly expiating the crime (too common) of making holy
oedin a qualification for worldly advantages. Not only
have I been held to bail for the early hour on this caw ;
but in • second, which took plus •a year ago, what
they say the clock struck eight immediately after the
ceremony was concluded. It is my firm beliefthat this charge
has been added merely to add to the weight of the former.
lam held to hail in 5001. for that also. Thirdly, lam told
that a third information awaits me about there being as
license. This is grave, but I meant no fraud. I cannot
account for my foll.; but I supposed it was their ffair to
answer that and not "
mine for I had nneverread aa license,
having only married live b license in all my life. I entreat
your lordship to withhold this third information : let me
struggle, the best I can, with the two former, the penalty of
which is to severe, without any addition to it. If you will
extend to me this mercy, I shall have a chance, after a very
long time, of recovering myself. But I do not .urea want
this mercy for nothing 4 will do any penance for my folly,
in any way you may appoint. I will discharge to the best
of my abilities any task you may assign. I will fulfil the
duties, and give the full proceeds to the poor for any length
of time. And lastly, I will give up all my literary occupa-
tions, and endeavour to study the laws and ditties
of my protean's, so as not to be a disgrace to
it, but if possible a serviceable member of it.
And lastly, I would make any compensation if I could
to any pude s aggrieved by the recentbut I under-
' stand they and others are in bitter trouble at the result of
proceedings which they took against me, and thereby that'
I have already been more than punished for any injury they
may be 'apposed to have suffered."
It was further proved that Dr. Giles bad been the means
of getting Mr. and hln.Tratt out of the way, they having
sailed to Australia, the doctor having paid their passage
money.
Numerous witnesses were examined, and amongst that
the Lord Bishop of Oxford, who produced the above lets"
and the case was most clearly established.
The defence set up was, that the defendant wu over-
aulated with his literary labours, and through an utter
recklessness had made those fetal mistakes, but not with the
intent of injuring or defrauding any one.
Several clergymen gave the defendant • very good cha-
motor.
The jury retired for ten minutes, and then returned into
I sort with a verdict of Guilty; bat recommended the O-
lsen*, to mercy.
Dr. Giles asked permission to address the court, which
was readily conceded. He said it appeared he had offended
lagelast church and state. He admitted that be was an un-
worthy member of the former ; but in going iato it he had
;oily carried out the wishes of his deceased father. It was
entirely opposed to his own inclination. He bad worked
for years past very hard, at the rate of twelve hours a day,
publishing the ancient records of this country. 120 volumes
were the result of his labours. He had never 'ought favour
from say one. If any one been hi
him • favour, he had
always duns it. That had been his misfortune. He felt
that, had he been placed in any other position in life than
the church, he could have followed a successful career, and
been a useful member of society. He was the eldest of 16
children. He had n had • penny from his friends since
he was 18 years of age He took his degree in this uni-
versity. He felt his head sometimes affected by his great
studies. lie then stated to his lordship that, in the present
case, he had no motive to Mee, and begged earnestly for
lvs lordship to take a merciful consideration of his cave, and
not to tend him to prison. If he wee sent to prison, he cer-
tainly should not outlive it.
Lord Campbell, in sentencing the defendant, said that a
su.piciou had existed that be had bus guilty of some im-
moral act, which had made him so anxious to got Jane
Green married and out of the way. That suspicion ap-
peared to be entirely without foundation. His lordship
remarked upon the melancholy spectacle of seeing a man
of his standing in such a:lamentable position. He hoped his
future viaduct would be characterised with that atonement
which he now professed to feel, and that he would become a
useful member of society at some future period. He was
then sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment without
hard labour.
The defendant appeared to feel the *entente most acutely.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—WiNcannit, MARca 6.

rs 001311 T.-1110111 KR I. I. CIOWDU.
BIIAGIAILT, WITH TIOLTMCM.

George Hallett and Henry Vol. alias Hutchins, alias
Chninamay, were indicted for burglarious], entering the
house of Janet Royce, to the parish of South Stoneham,
during the nicht of the 28th Nov., and using violence to the
bitumen, sad strain therefrom dims moneys and articles
of plate and tewellery.
M.r. Sews and Mr. Leiser for the prosecution, Mr. Col-
lier, Q.C., for the prisoner Hallett, and Mr. W. M. Cooke for
About twetty.ive witnesses were ersmised on the part
of the prommutioa in this cam, teem whom evidence it ap-
that Miss Xoyas as elderly maiden lady, lived in
Crw a
Tree Cottage, about three miles and &half horn

Boatheaptall, and her household gooloted of two female
solvents call. The lady and her auras% retired to rest, '1
leaving the home fastened, about eleven o'clock oa the
sight of the 28th November. Between two and three on '
the following morning, ho , the room of one of the
servants was soddenly burst Into by boar me., with their
!hoes masked or blackened, who at secs advatod apes
the young woman sad demanded bmoney or hoe
to
Finding she had roily cos posed Is bee pesmiss, Wiry
forced her to get into bed and onto bar bead midi the
clothes, and then questioned her about time limitiou et the
other in
saint and the most valuable pesporty Ow of this
men ronsaining to watch over this servant, tee elm shims
burglars went to the room a Mime Holm, width thop ale
broke open, and forcing the lady down in Mr INN als,
mended her property, under threats of setting Om bg:
fire If she refused to give it op. The burglars SW
another door leading to an adjoining. room, whore die
second servent slept, who they told if she offered to
speak, they would knock her brains out." This girl they 1
allowed to get into the bed of her mistress, (earths, as NM
of them said, she would jump out of windo ; and thenthry
recommenced threatesing the lady, and one of the villains
struck her violently across the legs twice with some heavy
instrumeat. In the meantime the drawers and furniture
of the room were wrenched open, and the stoutest's
ransacked in search of valuables:; and after some time the
mea all left, having asked the lady if they should have some
porter and wine, to which she said, " Have anything, but
go away." Upon the ady getting up from the
hod, they found a deal drawer partly under the bed, on
which • piece newsaper was partly burnt. The lady
elm &sowed of
p that about 161. had been taken from the
boon fa money, a gold watch, numerous gold chains, ear-
tinge, and trinkets, and all her service of plate. Neither
the lady nor the servants could identify the, prisoners as of
the party who entered their rooms. The evidence by which'
it was sought toconnect the prisoners with the crime was a
long chain of circumstances. It was shown that a pug of
ticket-of-leave men and thieves had lately appeared in
Southampton, and with whom, at their haunts, had been
seen the prisoners on numerous occasions. The prisoner
Hallet was shown to have been out all night, and to have
reached his home about 4 o'clock on the morning of the
barglary. A man named Futcher, the keeper of a beer-
thop, deposed that the prisoner Vile had communicated the
particulars of him and three others having committed the
'robbery, and that " Truukey Bill," one of the four men,
I afterwards gave him two legs of mutton not t
hispeoe them,
threatening to murder him if he divulged knowledge.l
Truakey Bill " was also proved to have shown same gold,
shafts in his possession the day after the burglary.
Mr. Collier and Mr. Cooke severally addressed the jury at
great length on behalf of the prisoners, arguing the general
fitaufaciency of the evidence to warrant a conviction.
The judge having very minutely summed up the eel-
dence, the jury found the prisosen Guilty of burglary,
but without violence.
Sentence was deferred.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Dtramm, Meaca 5.

11.13.T.-I$ TOILS WON PAUL
STRANUE CASE.

ilargaree Geflilbtd, a married woman, was charged with
the manslaughter of her infant child, Elisabeth Oellilind,
at the Belmont Railway-station, on the 18th September lest.
Mr. Seymour prosecuted; the lion. A. Liddell defended.
This was a very affecting case. Oellilind and his wife
are Irish people, and the husband worked in the neigh-
bourhood of Durham lest autumn. Some dispute had
arisen between them ; in fact, the husband alleged the child
was not his and it was arranged that the woman and child
should go back to Ireland. On the morning of the 18th
September, the prisoner and an old woman, of the name of
bi'blinnus, proceeded to the railway station to go to Liver-
pool They were acoompanied by the old woman's son and
the husband of the prisoner. Whilst on the platform she
asked Id•Minnus if he would take the child and give it to ,
her husband after the train had started. lie refused
to do so. But as ;the train was in motion she
held it out of the window, and ]'Minas, seeing
that it was likely to fell ran to catch it. The bus.
bend, however, pushed him aside, and the woman losing hold
of the child which was tied up in a bundle, it fell on the
platform, and rolled over on to the rail,. The train posed
lover one of its legs, and crushed it to atom,. The train was
immediately stopped, but on the guard making inquiries if
any one had lost a child, the prisoner kept silent, and It
was not until the husband came up that she was dragged
out and taken into custody. The poor little child, whisk
was only five weeks old, died shortly after the accident, and
the prisoner has been in custody since. As there did not
appear to have been any intention in the mind of the pri-
soner when she dropped the child out of the carriage window
more than to leave it with her husband, under the direction
of his lordship the jury acquitted her.