The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

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XOIIIEZZY lIT ONE eV nig MAlYlt'& 100T1112t.
Stanley Booth. V', described as a servant,. was chargml in
three iudietments with steeling a Neck frock coat and other
articles, *slue 71, tbe property of Charles Acacia; a goat
and other articles, value 21.,.the proper*, of William Biddle ;
and a cost rand other atticles,veitte 74 the property of WM
liam Hawkins, in the dwelling house el ear flovereip. Lay
the P

Queen.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to tweed the charges, bat said
he inteaded to ninon the artistes.
TIIS Assistant- Jadg• and that wee is effect • plena not
guilty. Did On primmer mean topnad guilty of stealing
the artistes ?
The prieconeasaid he did.
The facts in the ease wen these :—The prisoner wee one
of her Majesty's footsies, and the crows donors Hawkins and
Kiddie wets under batten at Bockieghem Palen, and
Arnold week the same capacity as the ;incur. one of the
Queen's 101112.91 k. During the recent abashes of the court
et Balmoral the prisoner was at Buckiarthas Palace, but at
the latter end of September be left. Os aniviag at the
palace from Soothad or Osborn*, the preseason', found that
a variety of articles had been taken from eltallen in their
respective bedrooms, and suspicion having fallen on the
prisoner, ialeemation wu given to Police Sergeant Den-
ning, 38 A, who took him into custody is Cambridge-street,
Pimlico, on the 27th of October. At that time be one wear.
lug a coat belonging to Arnold, and on being searched sin
pawnbrokers' duplicates reletiag to other missing articles
were found upon him. The articles were left safe in July,
and the prisoner bad sense to the room is which they were
&putted.
Mr. Merry appeared for the prisoner, whose character, he
said, bad been excellent up to the time of these offences.
fie had been for many
Joseph Pazton, at Chatsworth' the
Doke of Devonshire recommended hiss to the Duke of Wel-
lington, and after that he was reounnended to her Majesty,
and appointed one of her footmen. Unfortunately for him,
he bad' engaged in betting on horse racing, and sting lust
about 1301., he became pressed for money, and took these
articles for the purpose of raising money ea them to meet
emergencies. The police sergeant found on the primmer •
letter, which would give the Doan Information on the subject,
end he, Mr. Harry, would band is a letter from a clergyman
la the country, speaking Kehl, of the prisoner. The pnsuner
would emigrate immediately the sentence which the court
would pass might 'spire.
The Assistant-Judge having perused the letters, observed
that, as far as he could judge from them, be was inclined to
think that the prisoner owed his position more to some coll-
usion be had formed than to hone ruing.
The Prisoner—lt was hoes rating, Sir.
The AsehtionJedge—Where did yea make your bets.
Prisoner—At different plum Soma at Delaltay'e, in
Piccadilly.
The Assistant-Judge said it was a sail thing to see the
prisoner, who had been one of bee Modesty's footmen, who
bed borne so high a character, and bed been so highly
rosommeaded, in hie present unfortunate position. He
would advise him, from what he bed seen in the letters, to
leave Landon immediately he came out of prison. The
esatenee upon him was that he be kept to hard labour for
en
moans for the two came of whist& he had pleaded
guilty, and the court would not try him on the thin charge.

THE FIRST RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER NU founded In
1703. Peter the Great not only toot pert in making it up,
but also himself revised the proofs, as may he seen by
several sheets Mill in etietetee, which are earreated in hie
headerriting. Only two complete copies of the first year's
impressions of t►is journal exist, sad both are in the Impe-
rial library at St. Petenbarg. The chief librarian, Bum
Modesto von Hari; ordered the musben of Ms journal, as
arrested and edited by Peter t►e Great, to be npublished
far the eentenary commemoratiag the fouadation of the

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one yoiens is lko, sod it mamba INMAN as histosiiii
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