The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-02 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EV/141AG, MARCH 2, 1864.

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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—MARCH 1.
Attar Tana Satrap at Nig Prim at Oefiatidt.—(Bdtora
Lord %is Jlllll4la Cockburn and a Opal Jury).

CIIZEBITELL AND ANOTHER V. JACISON AND ANOTHER.
The summing up yesterday co:spied six hour& The iiwy
retired, sad slier being absent about an hour returned utto
court sad gave s verdict far t►e deteadaatn.
The announcement was received with great applause by
the spectators

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
Ymica 1.
(Bears the Jodp Ordinary.)
CODILINGTON r. 001FIIIIGTOX LAD MIII3BOII.

In this own Admiral Codriugtoa sued foe a divorce on the
ground of his wde's alleged adultery with Colonel Anderson.
Spinks applied to the court for pumienon to cite
Lieutenant Mil y, of the Rifle Brigade, now serving in
the Punjaub, as • second co-respondent.
Mr. Inderwick opposed the motion on behalf of the re-
spondent.
Sir J. Wilde said that if he thought the application was •
bond fide one, or intended for any legitimate purpose, he
should at once grant the learned civilian's request ; or
if Lieutenant y, on the other hand, had
wished to be made • co-respondent for the par.
pose of obtaining • locus ettedi and defending
himself against the charge which had been brought
against h®, be should also have let him in. But it
appeared to him (the learned judge) that the object of the
motion was merely to stop this gentleman's mouth, and so
deprive Mrs. Codrington of the benefit of his evidence.
He could not help remarking that the law as regarded the
evidence of persons charged with adultery was most unsatis-
factory. A husband was not bound to make more than one
person • ro-raspondent, but he might charge any number of
other persons with adultery. If he made anybody • co-
respondent that person's mouth was cloud ; if he did
he might give evidence - so that whether a person
with adultery might or might not be examined deTincV
entirely upon whether the petitioner chose to
make him a party to the suit. The present
rem was • good deal like that of " Robinson r. Robinson
and Lane." In that suit there was no evidence against the
co-respondent, the case against Mrs. Lie resting entirely
upon entries in her dna ; and so strongly did the court
feel the injustice does to Dr. Line by retuning him in the
muse, and thus preventing him from giving evidence, that
they actually procured an am of parliament to be eased
under which they might discharge hand enable him to
become a witness. The application. Swanks seemed
to be intended to place Lieutenant fitildosay is exactly the
mine position as that front which Dr. Lane was relieved b
a special statute, and the motion mast therefore be
A commis ion to examine witnesses in India was then
granted.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(Before thsßeocadar.)

Mr. Lißey made an application to the oourt of anther
singular character.
A man named John Ogden was committed for trial upon
the charge of eloping with the wife of a person named Con,
and stealing a quantity of property belonging to the hus-
band. The wife was also committed upon a charge of
bigamy, it being alleged that she had married her supposed
paramour after she had left her husband. The learned
counsel now staid that since the prisoners had been sem-
witted for trial information had been obtained which In-
duped the prosecutor to believe that the woman was mar-
ried in 1842, previous to her marriage with (lox, add thin
wee the nese it would render it nerieseary for a totally dif-
ferent course of proceeding to be taken against the female
prisoner, for this reason :—as the wife of Cox she could
not be charged with robbing her husband, but if she had
been previously married, her marriage with Con wee, of
course, not a valid ceremony, sod die would be liable to be
indicted with Ogden in the ordinary manner far stealing the
property. It was necessary that further inquiries should
be made with reference to the marriages, and Icor this
he had to apply that the GM &ski stand over
ton purpose
:at union.

The Reirorder observed that if it should tarn out, u
stated by the learned oounsel, that the woman had been
previously married, it was a very lucky thing for the prose-
cutor. He then directed the trial to be postponed.
♦wwe Johnson, 27, was charged with feloniously 'malt-
ing and wounding Julia Moseley.
Mr. Orr edge prosecuted.. . _

The primmer conducted herself with • great deal of
effrontery during the trial, and put several questions to the
witnesses, the answers to which did not in any way tend to
altar the complexion of the case, and she repeatedly ex-
claimed that all they stated was lies.
The jury returned • verdict against the prisoner of
having wounded the prosecutrix with intent to do her
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Orridge informed the court that prior to the sentence
of four years' penal servitude which the prisoner was under-
going at the time the offence was committed, she bad been
sentenced to three years' penal servitude for • robbery from
the person, but in consequence of her good behaviour in
prison she was liberated upon a ticket of leave, and very
soon after she obtaised her liberty she committed another
Wirier" for which she was sentenced to four years' penal
servitude. She bad served three years of that period, and
in three months would have been discharged, the remainder
of her punishment, according to the present regulations,
being remitted. She would now, of course, have to serve
the full period for which she was originally sentenced.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner
had been convicted of • very serious offense, and it was ab-
solutely necessary that persons in the position of warden in
prisons should be protected from such acts of violsoce. He
thee ordered the prisour to be kept in penal servitude for
five years, to commence from the present time.
(Before the Common Serjeant.)
Glades Dobbins, smith, and Jaws Dobbins, smith.
were iodtthed for stealing a large quantity of gas, the
property of the London Gas Company.
The prisoners pleaded net guilty.
Mr. Poland and Mr. Bailey prosecuted; the prisoners
were defended by Mr. Sleigh end Mr. Daly.
In his opening statement Mr. Poland said there could be
no doubt that this system of stealing the gas had been
carried on for many years to a very large uteri. Since
1849 the prisoners hid carried on humus as smiths and
gufitters, at Markhawstreet, Chelsea, sod until the pre
seat time it was always supposed that they were highly
respectable tradesmen. It appeared that in that year the
district in which they lived was supplied with gas by the
Imperial Gas Company, and in the November of that year
the defendants made au application to have the gas
put on in their premises. The service pipe having
been laid on it was left to the prisoners to put
up the roster and other fittings, and they, being gufitters,
did it themselves. The service pipe was supplied for seven
bunters, that being the number which the primers
glued they would pire. Of course the Imperial Oes
Company sent in their bill for the amount of gas registered,
and of course they supposed that all the pa assumed
pared through the meter. In 18.57 the Imperial Gas Com-
pany made an exchange in this district with the London Gas
Company, who continued to supply gas to the defendants,
and who were the prosecutors in the present case. Late
last year the company received some information, and the
inspector of the district, Mr. Tally, went to the premises
with a number of workmen, and on going into the workshop
he (mod three hareem alight—it being thee about eleven
o'clock in the morning, but rather dull. In the shop and in
estrous there were two more lights burning. Mr. Tully
said he had come to inspect the meter. He went to it mid
immediately turned it off, when the two lights burning
in the house went out, bat the other three in the workshop
continued to burn as radiantly is ever. The meter was then
taken down, but the gas still continued to burn, when Mr.
Tully said that be must break the ground. In doing so he
found the gin coming in through the service pipe, and from
that pipe there was joined another pips, carrying the gas
into the workshop. It appeared that the gas had been
burned in the moat reckless and imrovident manner. From
the meter there were seven gaslights supplied, but there
were altogether fine.n burners supplied through the
spurious pipe, widths., harpers were generally kept alight
the whole night in the workshop, in order to keep it warm
for the workmen in the morning. There could be oo doubt
that these fifteen humors consumed between 201. and 301.
worth of gas in the course of the year, while the nevem
burners supplied by the meter consumed about if. worth of
gas quarterly.
Mr. Sleigh addressed the jury on behalf of the prima'.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the Common
Serjeant sentenced them to twelve mouths' imprisonment,
with hard labour.

THE POLICE COURTS.
130w-STREKT.

Philip Gay, an elderly man, of respectable appearance,
cashier at Messrs. Dent and Co., the clockraatere, was
brought up on remand, charged with embezzlement and
forgery.
Mr. Humphreys, of the firm of Humphreys and MFgan.
conducted the prteecutiou ; and Mr. Edward Lewis, of
Great Marlborough-street defended the prisoner.
Mr. Humphreys said the total defalcations were sup-
posed to exceed 4001.
The prisoner was remanded.
CLERK EX WELL.
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A dissipated looking women, elOgSeto the inure of Moro
Ett:a Bourke, and her age as 38, and described herself
as a mantle maker, haring nu home, wee charged before Mr.
Barker with causing the death of her infant child, William
Joseph Itoorke, aged six months, at 4, Lempstoa•temce,
St. Peter-street, Islington, in July, 1883.
Medical and other evidence showed that the child had
been so greatly neglected and insufficiently supplied with
food that death had resulted.
The prisoner, who appeared very ill, was remanded until
Tuesday next

CRYSTAL PALM. ONZ SHILLING DAY.
TGZSDAT, MARCH I.—Adnikrione oa paysowat, 529 I
ditto by mama tickets, 536 ; total. 1.065.
Mental shock, or great anxiety, changes the
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Mani, to—\.B. counterfeit. are bumf made.—Oftices., Mft, Rs
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of ba, Marc*; sod three subsequent Wednesdays, at Ed•
wards's, BealnehiSetrest.
FIZDZLICIL Calrint Maaaltatt, Ilarkearee, Oztordanerket,
pork butcher, aed Leneeneoad-road, lierreondee), Prepared
charcoal manufacture. —lst dividend of hid., Meta 2, and
three subsequent Wedesedays, at Itd wards's, llsaingball-
street.
Weimar Quatro Ita," Owen's-row, tlarkenwell, goldsmith—
lei dividend of la. ld., say Monday, at stanatehre, Ikelndball-
merest.
JAM= Famous and Minas Serninio, Si. Georpaanews,
Pimlioo, lively-stabis kespara—lit dividend od as. fid., any
Monday, at atanstelers, Basingball-street
Aaretta Motowom Notre'. Lac in Loma, and 050R01
EDIFiItDMORTON, Buelpighaeatert, Strand, Tat merchants

-Ist dividend ut fa. ed., any Monday, at Stansield a, Basing-
ball-street.
WILLUM IMILDROIIB2 and Joint Iseriam, Bradford, waste,
d dividend of 4s. Od., add a Island bid dividend of
=Erata creditors who have not received dividend pro
vioaaly, any Tuesday, at Carrick's, Leeds.
811001 and CACAILLIED. Maddersdeld, mango waste dealers—
rnd dividend of 9d., or • Ist and rod dividend of ea lid. to
creditors who have net received the previous dividend, any
Tuesday, at Carrick's, Ueda.
Joss's Samoa, Hoiyairth, engineer—lit dividend of 9d., any
Tusiday, M. 'adders, Leeds.
lu.km,, Bradford, iftnif merchant—let dividend of 4,
any Tuesday. at Carrick's, Leeds.
Wang= PAM; Chlibury, Salop, farmer—dividend of ts. lid.,
any Thursday. at Klanfor's. Birmingham.
Cilsatis TBoHAJ Mavis, Harborne, Staffordshire, draper, and
liirtningliam, wholesale paper dealer—dividend of Is. Ifd., any
hursday, at Kinneses,
ilAneKet DaT and Joan.' Minas iIIACKAAT. Stoke-upon.
Trent, plumbers—divldend of 60., any Thursday, at Kln-
item's, Birmingham.
RICHARD Cailltun and Komori) HURT Joule, Wolveitampton,
chemists-2nd dividend of Is., say Thenday, at Kinnear's,
Birmingham.
Isaac PITT (separate estate), Willeuhall, deadoedddrs. troy
merchant—dividend of did , any Thursday, at Kinnear's, Bir-
mingham,
EDWARD OnWiLD, Stoke-upon-Trent, oonuatsslon agent—divi-
dend of Is. Sid., any Thursday, at Kinnear's, Birmingham.
JOBS Soiremis, Melt, Flintahlre, forge muter—lit dividend of
ls. dd., any Wednesday, at Morgans. Liverp)oL